You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITSNever trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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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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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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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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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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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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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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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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