The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
TOM WAITSI’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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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’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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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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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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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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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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