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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.

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 don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
TOM WAITS

Drink Myself Problem
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
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
Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
TOM WAITS

Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
TOM WAITS

Freedom Myself Science
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.
TOM WAITS

Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITS

Desire One Liner Prayer
The piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITS

Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
TOM WAITS

Live Myself
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITS

Drive Nature Roar Yourself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
TOM WAITS

Guard Life Myself Ocean Play

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.

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