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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

Tom Waits

You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Guy Ring Sell Type
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
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITS

Back Sight Yourself
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
TOM WAITS

Career Family Night Trick Yourself
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
TOM WAITS

Drowning Music Rescue Sound Time Yourself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITS

Absorb Willing 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.
TOM WAITS

Culture Known Music Myself Planet Topic

I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

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