There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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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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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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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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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from 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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