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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

Tom Waits

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning 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
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
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 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
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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Myself Prayer Religious
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
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
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself

But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

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