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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.

Tom Waits

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
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
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
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
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
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
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
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
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.
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Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself

Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.

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