I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
TOM WAITSDon’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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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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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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