We have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITSDon’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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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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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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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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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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