We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
TOM WAITSNot the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I’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.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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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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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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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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The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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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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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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