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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

Tom Waits

The piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITS

Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
TOM WAITS

Head Rain
I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
TOM WAITS

Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Brave Captain Devil Light Wicket Yourself
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
TOM WAITS

Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITS

Imagination Right Wonder
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITS

Back Sight 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
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITS

Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Monkey Reality Weapon
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
TOM WAITS

Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean

For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

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