But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
TOM WAITSI never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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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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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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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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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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