Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
TOM WAITSThe Universe is making music all the time.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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