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

Tom Waits

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
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
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
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
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
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.
TOM WAITS

Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself

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