I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
TOM WAITSI sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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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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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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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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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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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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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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