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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.

Tom Waits

The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Talk Truth Yourself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Angel Blind Finding Hard Myself Selfish
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
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
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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Ideas Insect Lying Myself See
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
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
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See

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