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Tom Waits

Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
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.
TOM WAITS

Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
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
Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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Break Children Fall Live Time Window Yourself
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
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.
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Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself

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