Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
TOM WAITSYou learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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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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There’s no prayer like desire.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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