I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
TOM WAITSI did my time in the jail of your arms.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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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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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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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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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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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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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