I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
TOM WAITSThe average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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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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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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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’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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