You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
TOM WAITSI never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Most 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.
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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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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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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 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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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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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 like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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