The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITSit ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
More Tom Waits Quotes
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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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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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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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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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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