The Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITSThe world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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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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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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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 have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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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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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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