I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
TOM WAITSI’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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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 my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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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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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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