Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
TOM WAITSI made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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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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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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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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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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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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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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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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