Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
TOM WAITSI 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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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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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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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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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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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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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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