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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.

Tom Waits

I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
TOM WAITS

Commercial Oneself Song
My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
TOM WAITS

Animal Goodness Man Marriage Myself Thinking Wife
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
TOM WAITS

Arms Time Yourself
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
TOM WAITS

Fall Kind Yourself
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
TOM WAITS

Funny Grave Myself Sick
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
TOM WAITS

Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITS

Back Sight Yourself
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
TOM WAITS

Freedom Myself Science
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
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
TOM WAITS

Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITS

Death Earth Myself Scream
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.
TOM WAITS

Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
TOM WAITS

Dumb Intelligence Mental
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
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITS

Action Style Way Yourself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Talk Truth

Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.

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