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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
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
TOM WAITS

Music Myself Song Wind
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.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
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
The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant 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
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental

We have a deficit of wonder right now.

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