On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
TOM WAITSI’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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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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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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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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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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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’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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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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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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