But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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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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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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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.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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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 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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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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