The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITSI like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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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The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I was always laughing in church.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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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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There’s no prayer like desire.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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