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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.

Tom Waits

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
TOM WAITS

Drink Myself Problem
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
The Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITS

Music Time Universe
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
TOM WAITS

Herself Learning Woman
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
TOM WAITS

Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
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.
TOM WAITS

Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
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
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
TOM WAITS

Funny Instrument Musician Myself
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
TOM WAITS

Head Rain
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
TOM WAITS

Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself

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