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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.

Tom Waits

I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
TOM WAITS

Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Bad Difficult Myself Work
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
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
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
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.
TOM WAITS

Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
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
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
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
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

The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.

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