I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
TOM WAITSI’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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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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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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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 can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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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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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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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’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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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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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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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’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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