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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

Tom Waits

I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
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
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
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
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
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
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.
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Fight Justice Myself World
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
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITS

Back Sight Yourself

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

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