There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITSGot a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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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’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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