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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.

Tom Waits

You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Brave Captain Devil Light Wicket Yourself
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
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
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
The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
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
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself

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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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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