You’re innocent when you dream.
TOM WAITSA mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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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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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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