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Tom Waits

I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
TOM WAITS

Eyes Movie Song Thinking
For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
TOM WAITS

Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
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
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
TOM WAITS

Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
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
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITS

Day Plant Yourself
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
TOM WAITS

Live Myself
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
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
TOM WAITS

Gentle Man Play
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITS

Imagination Right Wonder
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
TOM WAITS

Funny Grave Myself Sick
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITS

Absorb Willing Yourself
Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
TOM WAITS

Break Children Fall Live Time Window Yourself
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Monkey Reality Weapon
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITS

Action Style Way Yourself
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
TOM WAITS

Age Myself Old Quite Young

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