I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
TOM WAITSShe’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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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 like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Don’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.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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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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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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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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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 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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