All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSWhen your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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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 made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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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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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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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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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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