Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITSI’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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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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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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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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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. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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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 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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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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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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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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