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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.

Tom Waits

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 put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
TOM WAITS

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
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITS

Back Sight Yourself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
TOM WAITS

Music Myself Song Wind
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
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
TOM WAITS

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

Lying Myself Past Secret
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
TOM WAITS

Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
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
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
TOM WAITS

Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITS

Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
TOM WAITS

Down Dreams Luck Yourself
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World

Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.

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