Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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More Tom Waits Quotes
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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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 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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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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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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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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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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I was always laughing in church.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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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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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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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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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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