I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
TOM WAITSAll that you’ve loved is all you own.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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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’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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I was always laughing in church.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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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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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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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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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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