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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.

Tom Waits

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

Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
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
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
TOM WAITS

Desire Memories Time
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITS

Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITS

Friendship Pain Reality
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITS

Action Style Way Yourself
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
TOM WAITS

Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
TOM WAITS

Herself Learning Woman
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
TOM WAITS

Enough Far Home Yourself
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
TOM WAITS

Arms Time Yourself
I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
TOM WAITS

Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
TOM WAITS

Kill Kiss Myself See
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.
TOM WAITS

Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITS

Day Plant Yourself
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
TOM WAITS

Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
TOM WAITS

Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather

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