The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITSI’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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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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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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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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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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I was always laughing in church.
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