The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITSIf you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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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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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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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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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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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.
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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