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

Tom Waits

The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
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
Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
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
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
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
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
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
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself

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