I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
TOM WAITSA mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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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.
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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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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
TOM WAITS






