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Tom Waits

We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
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
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
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
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
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
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself

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