Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
TOM WAITSThe earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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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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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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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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There’s no prayer like desire.
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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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.
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