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Tom Waits126 quotes“I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.”
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
Tom WaitsTom Waits 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
Tom WaitsTom Waits On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
Tom WaitsTom Waits The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I was always laughing in church.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
Tom WaitsTom Waits 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.
Tom WaitsTom Waits A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
Tom WaitsTom Waits She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
Tom WaitsTom Waits The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
Tom WaitsTom Waits You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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