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.
TOM WAITSWell, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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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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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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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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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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