The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
TOM WAITSI never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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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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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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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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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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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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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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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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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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