I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITSDon’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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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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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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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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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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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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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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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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