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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.

Tom Waits

I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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Culture Known Music Myself Planet Topic
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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Born Myself Night Search Sleep Sweet
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
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
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
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
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.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Cold Dance Hard Music Way
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
TOM WAITS

Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word

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