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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

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.
TOM WAITS

People Scare Success Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
TOM WAITS

Herself Learning Woman
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
TOM WAITS

Commercial Oneself Song
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
TOM WAITS

Admire Death Feeling People
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Monkey Reality Weapon
The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
TOM WAITS

Culture Known Music Myself Planet Topic
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
TOM WAITS

Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
TOM WAITS

End Force Surreal Yourself
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
TOM WAITS

Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
TOM WAITS

Freedom Myself Science
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
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.
TOM WAITS

Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
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
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITS

Known Trust Yourself
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible

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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