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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

All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITS

Donut Name Prostitute Sound
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
TOM WAITS

Kill Kiss Myself See
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
TOM WAITS

Head Rain
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
TOM WAITS

Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
TOM WAITS

Gentle Man Play
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
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITS

Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
TOM WAITS

Commercial Oneself Song
I was always laughing in church.
TOM WAITS

Laughter Myself Religious
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
TOM WAITS

Cold Dance Hard Music Way
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
TOM WAITS

Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Past Secret
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
TOM WAITS

Arms Time Yourself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITS

Imagination Right Wonder
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITS

Drive Nature Roar Yourself

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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