There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITSChildren 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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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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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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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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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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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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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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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 beginning of it starts at the end.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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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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