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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

Tom Waits

The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
TOM WAITS

Talk Truth Yourself
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Cold Dance Hard Music Way
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
TOM WAITS

Fall Kind Yourself
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time

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