New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
TOM WAITSAnd the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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