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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

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
TOM WAITS

Age Myself Old Quite Young
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITS

Air Interest Song
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITS

Known Trust Yourself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
TOM WAITS

Children Learning Yourself
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.
TOM WAITS

Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
TOM WAITS

Funny Instrument Musician Myself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITS

Imagination Right Wonder
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing 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.
TOM WAITS

Dreams Memories Remember Train 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.
TOM WAITS

Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
TOM WAITS

Kill Kiss Myself See
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
TOM WAITS

Food High Myself Table Trade

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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