The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
TOM WAITSAll that you’ve loved is all you own.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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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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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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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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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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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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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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