The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITSAnd the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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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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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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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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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 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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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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