Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
TOM WAITSI put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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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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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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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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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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