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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.
TOM WAITS

Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
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.
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Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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People Scare Success Yourself
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITS

Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITS

Death Earth Myself Scream
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 sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong

I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.

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