I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITSNot the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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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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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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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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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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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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