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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.

Tom Waits

it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning 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
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
TOM WAITS

Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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Culture Known Music Myself Planet Topic
My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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Animal Goodness Man Marriage Myself Thinking Wife
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
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
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
TOM WAITS

Cold Dance Hard Music Way

It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.

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