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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’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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Fight Justice Myself World
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
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
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.
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Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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Culture Known Music Myself Planet Topic
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
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
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
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
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 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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