All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSThe average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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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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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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