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Tom Waits

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
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
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.
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Bad Difficult Myself Work
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
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself

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