There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITSWell I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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All that you’ve loved is all you 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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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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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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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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