I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
TOM WAITSI like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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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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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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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 think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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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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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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