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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.

Tom Waits

I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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Busy Car Dog Move Yourself
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant 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
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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People Scare Success Yourself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
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
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
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
If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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Market Myself Nervous Open People See Yourself

There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.

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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.

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