I did my time in the jail of your arms.
TOM WAITSNever trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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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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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I was always laughing in church.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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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.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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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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