I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
TOM WAITSYou’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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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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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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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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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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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 sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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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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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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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