I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
TOM WAITSChildren 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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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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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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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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