All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSGot a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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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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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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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 plant your days they turn into weeds.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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