All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSI don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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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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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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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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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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