You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
TOM WAITSI dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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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’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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I was always laughing in church.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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