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Tom Waits

I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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Application Fill Myself Sex Start Writing
I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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Myself Prayer Religious
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
TOM WAITS

Freedom Myself Science
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
TOM WAITS

Capture End Feature Song Writing
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
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 fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
TOM WAITS

Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
TOM WAITS

Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself

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