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Tom Waits

I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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Busy Car Dog Move Yourself
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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Inspirational Money Musician Need Play Stage Wallet Yourself
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 don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
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
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
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?
TOM WAITS

Brave Captain Devil Light Wicket Yourself
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime

The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.

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