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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.

Tom Waits

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
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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Admire Death Feeling People
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.
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Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
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.
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Bad Difficult Myself Work
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
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.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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Inspirational Money Musician Need Play Stage Wallet Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Talk Truth Yourself

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 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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