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Tom Waits

Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
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
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
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
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
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
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play

it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones

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