You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
TOM WAITSCome down off the cross, we could use the wood.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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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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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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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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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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