I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITSI started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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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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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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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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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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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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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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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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