Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
TOM WAITSThe piano has been drinking, not me.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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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 piano has been drinking, not me.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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