And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITSBut it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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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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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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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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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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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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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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