Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
TOM WAITSSing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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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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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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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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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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