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Tom Waits

If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
TOM WAITS

Angel Devil Myself
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
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
TOM WAITS

Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITS

Back Sight Yourself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
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.
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Admire Death Feeling People
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Talk Truth
I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
TOM WAITS

Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
TOM WAITS

Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
TOM WAITS

Age Myself Old Quite Young

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