Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITSWhen I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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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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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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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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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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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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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