You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
TOM WAITSWe have a deficit of wonder right now.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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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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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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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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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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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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