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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

Tom Waits

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
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
TOM WAITS

Cold Dance Hard Music Way
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
TOM WAITS

Music Myself Song Wind
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
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
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
TOM WAITS

Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
TOM WAITS

Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
TOM WAITS

End Force Surreal Yourself
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
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
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Talk Truth
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
TOM WAITS

Arms Time Yourself
There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITS

Desire One Liner Prayer

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