The Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITSThere’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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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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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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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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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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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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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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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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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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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