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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.

Tom Waits

I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
TOM WAITS

Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
TOM WAITS

Enough Far Home Yourself
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
TOM WAITS

Break Finding Stay Window
I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
TOM WAITS

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.
TOM WAITS

Admire Death Feeling People
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITS

Absorb Willing Yourself
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
TOM WAITS

Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
TOM WAITS

Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
TOM WAITS

Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITS

Imagination Right Wonder
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITS

Donut Name Prostitute Sound
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
TOM WAITS

Alcohol Blood Myself
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
TOM WAITS

Cold Dance Hard Music Way
The Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITS

Music Time Universe
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITS

Initial Myself Scratch
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
TOM WAITS

Bowl Moon Myself Stars

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