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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

I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
TOM WAITS

Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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Fight Justice Myself World
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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Down Dreams Luck Yourself
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
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
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
TOM WAITS

Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself

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