But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
TOM WAITSI’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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 always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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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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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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I was always laughing in church.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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