Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
TOM WAITSOh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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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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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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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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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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