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Tom Waits

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.
TOM WAITS

Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
TOM WAITS

Evening Myself Train
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
TOM WAITS

Enough Far Home Yourself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
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.
TOM WAITS

Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
TOM WAITS

Funny Instrument Musician Myself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
TOM WAITS

Cross Wood
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITS

Friendship Pain Reality
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
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.
TOM WAITS

Admire Death Feeling People
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.
TOM WAITS

Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time
The piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITS

Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITS

Donut Name Prostitute Sound
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
TOM WAITS

Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
TOM WAITS

Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing

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