Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITSI’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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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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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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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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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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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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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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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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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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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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