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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.

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
I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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Drowning Music Rescue Sound Time Yourself
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
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
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Guy Ring Sell Type
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
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
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
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride

I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.

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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.

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