You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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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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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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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 do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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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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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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