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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

Tom Waits

There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
TOM WAITS

Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
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.
TOM WAITS

Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
TOM WAITS

Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITS

Back Sight Yourself
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
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
For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
TOM WAITS

Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
I was always laughing in church.
TOM WAITS

Laughter Myself Religious

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