Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
TOM WAITSAll that you’ve loved is all you own.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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I was always laughing in church.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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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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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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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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