But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
TOM WAITSThe earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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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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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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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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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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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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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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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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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