I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
TOM WAITSThe Universe is making music all the time.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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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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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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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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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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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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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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