I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
TOM WAITSI don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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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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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 don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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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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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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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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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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