But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
TOM WAITSWell, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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I was always laughing in church.
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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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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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We are all just 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 did my time in the jail of your arms.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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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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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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