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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.

Tom Waits

I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
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
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
TOM WAITS

Eyes Movie Song Thinking
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
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
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
TOM WAITS

Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean

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