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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.

Tom Waits

She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
TOM WAITS

Forest Herself Live
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
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITS

Love One Liner Yourself
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITS

Donut Name Prostitute Sound
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
TOM WAITS

Age Myself Old Quite Young
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
TOM WAITS

Enough Far Home Yourself
I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
TOM WAITS

Application Fill Myself Sex Start Writing
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
TOM WAITS

Balance Car Myself Pride
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITS

Imagination Right Wonder
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
TOM WAITS

Devil God Sleep World
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITS

Initial Myself Scratch
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
TOM WAITS

Funny Grave Myself Sick
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
TOM WAITS

Herself Learning Woman
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
TOM WAITS

Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITS

Action Style Way Yourself
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITS

Day Plant Yourself

Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.

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