Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
TOM WAITSThe dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I was always laughing in church.
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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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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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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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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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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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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 don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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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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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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