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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.

Tom Waits

We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Monkey Reality Weapon
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Past Secret
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
TOM WAITS

Balance Car Myself Pride
The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
TOM WAITS

Culture Known Music Myself Planet Topic
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITS

Air Interest Song
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
TOM WAITS

Dumb Intelligence Mental
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITS

Known Trust Yourself
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
TOM WAITS

Devil God Sleep World
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITS

Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITS

Day Plant Yourself
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITS

Donut Name Prostitute Sound
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
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
TOM WAITS

Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
TOM WAITS

Evening Myself Train
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
TOM WAITS

Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
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

There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.

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