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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?

Tom Waits

Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
TOM WAITS

Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
TOM WAITS

Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Monkey Reality Weapon
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
TOM WAITS

Desire Memories Time
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
TOM WAITS

Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Talk Truth
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.
TOM WAITS

Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
The piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITS

Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime
The beginning of it starts at the end.
TOM WAITS

Beginning End Start
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.
TOM WAITS

Bad Difficult Myself Work
There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITS

Desire One Liner Prayer
Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
TOM WAITS

Born Myself Night Search Sleep Sweet
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
TOM WAITS

Eyes Movie Song Thinking
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
TOM WAITS

Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
I was always laughing in church.
TOM WAITS

Laughter Myself Religious

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