I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
TOM WAITSWe are all just monkeys with money and guns.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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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. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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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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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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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.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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