Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITSI’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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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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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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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.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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