You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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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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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 can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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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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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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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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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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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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