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

Tom Waits

It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
TOM WAITS

Break Children Fall Live Time Window Yourself
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
TOM WAITS

People Scare Success Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
TOM WAITS

Brave Captain Devil Light Wicket 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
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
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.
TOM WAITS

Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
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
My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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Animal Goodness Man Marriage Myself Thinking Wife
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom

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