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.
TOM WAITSI don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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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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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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I was always laughing in church.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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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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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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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.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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