There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITSI have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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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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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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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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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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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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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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