The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
TOM WAITSI 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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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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There’s no prayer like desire.
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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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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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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