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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

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
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
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 can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
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
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITS

Death Earth Myself Scream

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

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