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Tom Waits

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

Act Actor Difference Myself
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITS

Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
TOM WAITS

Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
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
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
The piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITS

Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
TOM WAITS

Children Learning Yourself
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
TOM WAITS

Cold Dance Hard Music Way
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITS

Air Interest Song
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
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITS

Away Big Small
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
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
TOM WAITS

Enough Far Home Yourself
The Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITS

Music Time Universe
If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
TOM WAITS

Market Myself Nervous Open People See Yourself
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
TOM WAITS

Fall Kind Yourself

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