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Tom Waits

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 think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
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
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
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
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
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
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
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
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime

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