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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.

Tom Waits

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
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
TOM WAITS

Late Myself Ride
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
TOM WAITS

Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
TOM WAITS

Balance Car Myself Pride
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
TOM WAITS

Live Myself
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
TOM WAITS

Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITS

Love One Liner Yourself
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
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
TOM WAITS

Drink Myself Problem
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
TOM WAITS

Break Finding Stay Window
The Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITS

Music Time Universe
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Talk Truth
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITS

Day Plant Yourself
When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
TOM WAITS

Down Dreams Luck Yourself
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
TOM WAITS

Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
TOM WAITS

Devil God Sleep World

I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.

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