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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.

Tom Waits

Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
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
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
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 have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal 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
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
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
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
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon

Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.

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