You’re innocent when you dream.
TOM WAITSI don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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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 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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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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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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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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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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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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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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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 did my time in the jail of your arms.
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