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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

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
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
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
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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Career Family Night Trick Yourself
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Bowl Moon Myself Stars
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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Born Myself Night Search Sleep Sweet
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
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Cold Dance Hard Music Way
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
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.
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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
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
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
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
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science

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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