If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
TOM WAITSAll that you’ve loved is all you own.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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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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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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I was always laughing in church.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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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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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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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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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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