All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSNew York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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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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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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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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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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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 way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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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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