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Tom Waits

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
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
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 I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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Admire Death Feeling People
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
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
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself

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