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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.

Tom Waits

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.
TOM WAITS

Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
TOM WAITS

Career Family Night Trick Yourself
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
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 beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Cold Dance Hard Music Way
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
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 blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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Culture Known Music Myself Planet Topic
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
TOM WAITS

Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself

Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.

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