I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
TOM WAITSMost of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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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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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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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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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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