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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

Tom Waits

Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITS

Air Interest Song
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
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
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
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Bad Difficult Myself Work
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word

Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

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