Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
TOM WAITSYou can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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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 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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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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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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