Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
TOM WAITSI like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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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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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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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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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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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 don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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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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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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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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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