Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
TOM WAITSI’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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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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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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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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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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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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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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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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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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