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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Tom Waits

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITS

Away Big Small
The Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITS

Music Time Universe
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITS

Known Trust Yourself
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
TOM WAITS

Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
TOM WAITS

Balance Car Myself Pride
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.
TOM WAITS

Floor Machine Myself Pieces
The beginning of it starts at the end.
TOM WAITS

Beginning End Start
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.
TOM WAITS

Inspirational Money Musician Need Play Stage Wallet Yourself
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
TOM WAITS

Children Learning Yourself
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
TOM WAITS

Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
TOM WAITS

Alcohol Blood Myself
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Past Secret
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
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITS

Day Plant Yourself
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

Angel Blind Finding Hard Myself Selfish
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

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

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