All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSOn my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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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 started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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I was always laughing in church.
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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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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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