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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

Tom Waits

If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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Break Children Fall Live Time Window Yourself
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
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
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Bad Difficult Myself Work
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight

But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

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