Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITSYou can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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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’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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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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I was always laughing in church.
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