You’re innocent when you dream.
TOM WAITSI guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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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 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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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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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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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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