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Tom Waits

Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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Drowning Music Rescue Sound Time Yourself
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.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
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
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITS

Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
TOM WAITS

Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITS

Away Big Small
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
TOM WAITS

Capture End Feature Song Writing
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.
TOM WAITS

Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental

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