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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

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
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.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Bowl Moon Myself Stars
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean
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

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