A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
TOM WAITSNot the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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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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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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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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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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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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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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