I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
TOM WAITSMost of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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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’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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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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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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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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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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