All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSThe devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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