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.
TOM WAITSI like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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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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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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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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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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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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