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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

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
TOM WAITS

Kill Kiss Myself See
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
TOM WAITS

Market Myself Nervous Open People See Yourself
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Talk Truth Yourself
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITS

Love One Liner Yourself
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITS

Air Interest Song
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
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
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Guy Ring Sell Type
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

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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