I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
TOM WAITS
It’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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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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