When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
TOM WAITSI 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.
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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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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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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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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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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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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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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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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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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