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

Tom Waits

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.
TOM WAITS

Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITS

Love One Liner Yourself
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
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.
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People Scare Success Yourself
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
TOM WAITS

Myself Prayer Religious
The Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITS

Music Time Universe
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.
TOM WAITS

Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
TOM WAITS

Eyes Movie Song Thinking
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.
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Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
TOM WAITS

Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITS

Known Trust Yourself
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Monkey Reality Weapon

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