The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITSSing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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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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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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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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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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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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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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