Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
TOM WAITSYou can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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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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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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I was always laughing in church.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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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. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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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.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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