I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITSThe piano has been drinking, not me.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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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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You’re innocent when you dream.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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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 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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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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