And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITSNew York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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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 always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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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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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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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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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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