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.
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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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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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’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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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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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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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 beginning of it starts at the end.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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