There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITSSlept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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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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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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