I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
TOM WAITSSing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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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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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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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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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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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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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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