Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
TOM WAITSYou’re innocent when you dream.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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 made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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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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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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