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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.

Tom Waits

I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
TOM WAITS

Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Angel Blind Finding Hard Myself Selfish
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
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.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
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.
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Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
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.
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Admire Death Feeling People
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITS

Air Interest Song
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible

Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.

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