You’re innocent when you dream.
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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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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