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

Tom Waits

You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
TOM WAITS

Children Learning Yourself
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
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
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing 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
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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Fight Justice Myself World
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.
TOM WAITS

Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
TOM WAITS

Food High Myself Table Trade
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train

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