The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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 don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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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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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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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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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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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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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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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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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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