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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.

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.
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Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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Market Myself Nervous Open People See Yourself
Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself

I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.

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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.

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