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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Tom Waits

There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITS

Desire One Liner Prayer
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
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
TOM WAITS

Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITS

Away Big Small
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
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
TOM WAITS

Music Myself Song Wind
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
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
TOM WAITS

Live Myself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITS

Death Earth Myself Scream
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
TOM WAITS

Desire Memories Time
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
TOM WAITS

Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
TOM WAITS

Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
TOM WAITS

Money Myself
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
TOM WAITS

Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITS

Donut Name Prostitute Sound
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITS

Imagination Right Wonder

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

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