All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSThe folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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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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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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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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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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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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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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