Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I 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.
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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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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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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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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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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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