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Tom Waits

The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
TOM WAITS

Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITS

Imagination Right Wonder
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
TOM WAITS

Money Myself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
TOM WAITS

Dumb Intelligence Mental
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
TOM WAITS

Bad Difficult Myself Work
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 like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
TOM WAITS

Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
TOM WAITS

Admire Death Feeling People
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
TOM WAITS

Arms Time Yourself
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
TOM WAITS

Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
TOM WAITS

Funny Grave Myself Sick

Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.

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