All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSThere’s no prayer like desire.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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I was always laughing in church.
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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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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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