But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
TOM WAITSDon’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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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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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.
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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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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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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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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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I was always laughing in church.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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