Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
TOM WAITSI’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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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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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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