You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
TOM WAITSIt’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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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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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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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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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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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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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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