I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
TOM WAITSYou learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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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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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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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.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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I was always laughing in church.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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