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.
TOM WAITSBill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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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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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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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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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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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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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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