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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’

Tom Waits

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITS

Friendship Pain Reality
I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
TOM WAITS

Fight Justice Myself World
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
TOM WAITS

Funny Grave Myself Sick
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
TOM WAITS

Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
TOM WAITS

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

Air Interest Song
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITS

Known Trust Yourself
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
TOM WAITS

Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
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.
TOM WAITS

Animal Goodness Man Marriage Myself Thinking Wife
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
TOM WAITS

Fall Kind 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.
TOM WAITS

Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITS

Drive Nature Roar 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.
TOM WAITS

Bad Difficult Myself Work
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
TOM WAITS

End Force Surreal Yourself
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
TOM WAITS

Late Myself Ride
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITS

Death Earth Myself Scream

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