If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
TOM WAITSIf I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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 beginning of it starts at the end.
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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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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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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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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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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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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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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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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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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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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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