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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

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
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
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
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

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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