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"I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy" — Tom Waits
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"The large print giveth, but the small print taketh away." — Tom Waits
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"I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out." — Tom Waits
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American Musician   

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"I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find..." — Tom Waits
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"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk" — Tom Waits
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"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" — Tom Waits
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"The big print giveth and the small print taketh away." — Tom Waits
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American Musician   

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"The piano has been drinking, not me." — Tom Waits
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American Musician   

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"George Bush is a fan of mine -- he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him." — Tom Waits
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"Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad — ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor, ... While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers." — Tom Waits
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"I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else." — Tom Waits
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American Musician    Trying   

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"Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad -- ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor, ... While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers." — Tom Waits
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"It's hard to win when you always lose." — Tom Waits
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"dark clown on a chicken farm." — Tom Waits
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"Easy Rider." — Tom Waits
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"Belly of a Drunken Piano." — Tom Waits
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"had no interest in being associated with any advertisement campaigns whatsoever." — Tom Waits
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"Commercials are an unnatural use of my work, ... It's like having a cow's udder sewn to the side of my face. Painful and humiliating." — Tom Waits
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"and I have lawyers over there investigating my options." — Tom Waits
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"Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor, ... While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers." — Tom Waits
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Advertisers    Compliments    Radio   

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"Apparently, ... the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad -- ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor. Currently accepting in my absence is my German doppelganger. While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers." — Tom Waits
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