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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

You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star 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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Break Finding Stay Window
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
TOM WAITS

Bowl Moon Myself Stars
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
TOM WAITS

Capture End Feature Song Writing
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITS

Friendship Pain Reality
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
TOM WAITS

Balance Car Myself Pride
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
TOM WAITS

Busy Car Dog Move Yourself
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITS

Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
TOM WAITS

Guy Ring Sell Type
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
TOM WAITS

Devil Drink God Himself Known
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITS

Drive Nature Roar Yourself
I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
TOM WAITS

Myself Prayer Religious
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
TOM WAITS

Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
TOM WAITS

Herself Learning Woman
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning 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.
TOM WAITS

Angel Blind Finding Hard Myself Selfish

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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