I did my time in the jail of your arms.
TOM WAITSI sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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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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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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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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There’s no prayer like desire.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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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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