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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

The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
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 earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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Down Dreams Luck Yourself
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
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
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Break Finding Stay Window
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime
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
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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People Scare Success Yourself
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
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
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious 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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