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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”

Tom Waits

You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
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 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
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Cold Dance Hard Music Way
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.
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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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Inspirational Money Musician Need Play Stage Wallet Yourself
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
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
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap

I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”

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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”

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