I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
TOM WAITSI’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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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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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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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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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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