When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
TOM WAITSI like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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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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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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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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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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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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