I did my time in the jail of your arms.
TOM WAITSMost 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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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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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.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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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 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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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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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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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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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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