If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
TOM WAITSWe are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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You’re innocent when you 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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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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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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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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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 never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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