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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way

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
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.
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Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
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
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
TOM WAITS

Floor Machine Myself Pieces
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
TOM WAITS

Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
TOM WAITS

Talk Truth 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 like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
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
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
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
TOM WAITS

Kill Kiss Myself See
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
TOM WAITS

Funny Instrument Musician Myself
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Monkey Reality Weapon

I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way

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