The beginning of it starts at the end.
TOM WAITSYou’re innocent when you dream.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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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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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’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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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 hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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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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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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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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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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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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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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