Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITSI 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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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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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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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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