All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSSing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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 can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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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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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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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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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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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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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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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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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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