I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
TOM WAITSThere’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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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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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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