it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
TOM WAITSDon’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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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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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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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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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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