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Tom Waits

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
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
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
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.
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Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing 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.
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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
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
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Myself Prayer Religious
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Cold Dance Hard Music Way
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See

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