I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
TOM WAITSMy 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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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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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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I was always laughing in church.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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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 always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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