All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITSSing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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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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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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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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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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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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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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