I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
TOM WAITSWe have a deficit of wonder right now.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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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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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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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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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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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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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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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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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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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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