You’re innocent when you dream.
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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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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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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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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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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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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