Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITSI never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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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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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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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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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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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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