I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
TOM WAITSI don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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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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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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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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