I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
TOM WAITSAll that you’ve loved is all you own.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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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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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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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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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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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 go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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