Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
TOM WAITSI started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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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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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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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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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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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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