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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.

Tom Waits

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
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
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?
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Brave Captain Devil Light Wicket Yourself
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
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
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
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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Bad Difficult Myself Work
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
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
Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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Born Myself Night Search Sleep Sweet
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano

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