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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.

Tom Waits

The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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Market Myself Nervous Open People See Yourself
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar 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
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
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
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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People Scare Success Yourself
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play

Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.

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