Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
TOM WAITSI like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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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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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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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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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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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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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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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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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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