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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

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
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
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
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
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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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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Busy Car Dog Move Yourself

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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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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