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Tom Waits

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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Busy Car Dog Move Yourself
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
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
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
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 started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
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.
TOM WAITS

Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone

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