All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSThe world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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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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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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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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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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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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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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