I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
TOM WAITSI’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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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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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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