You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
TOM WAITSDid the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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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 sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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I was always laughing in church.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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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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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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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 made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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