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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

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.
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Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious 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
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
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
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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Career Family Night Trick Yourself
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
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
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
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
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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Ideas Insect Lying Myself See
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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Animal Goodness Man Marriage Myself Thinking Wife
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
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

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