All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSWe are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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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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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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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 made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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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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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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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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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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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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