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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.

Tom Waits

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.
TOM WAITS

Bad Difficult Myself Work
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
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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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary

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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