If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
TOM WAITSAll that you’ve loved is all you own.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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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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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 Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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My 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.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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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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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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