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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.

Tom Waits

You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Bowl Moon Myself Stars
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.
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Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
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
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
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 piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference 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.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement

I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.

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