The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
TOM WAITS
TOM WAITS
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Tom WaitsTom Waits You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
Tom WaitsTom Waits The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
Tom WaitsTom Waits But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
Tom WaitsTom Waits The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
Tom WaitsTom Waits Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
Tom WaitsTom Waits It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
Tom WaitsTom Waits You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
Tom WaitsTom Waits They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
Tom WaitsTom Waits The Universe is making music all the time.
Tom WaitsTom Waits 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.
Tom WaitsTom Waits
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