I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITSDon’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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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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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 don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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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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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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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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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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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