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Tom Waits

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
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician 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
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
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.
TOM WAITS

Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known

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