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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.

Tom Waits

I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
TOM WAITS

Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
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
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
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
I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Angel Blind Finding Hard Myself Selfish
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
TOM WAITS

Break Finding Stay Window
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
TOM WAITS

Enough Far Home Yourself

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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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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