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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

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
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
TOM WAITS

Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITS

Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
TOM WAITS

Dumb Intelligence Mental
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
TOM WAITS

Cross Wood
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
TOM WAITS

Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
TOM WAITS

Born Myself Night Search Sleep Sweet
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
TOM WAITS

Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
TOM WAITS

Money Myself
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
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
TOM WAITS

Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
TOM WAITS

Late Myself Ride
The Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITS

Music Time Universe
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
TOM WAITS

Devil God Sleep World
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
TOM WAITS

Drink Myself Problem
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Talk Truth

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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