We have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITSI don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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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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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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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 beginning of it starts at the end.
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