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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
Tom WaitsTom Waits The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
Tom WaitsTom Waits It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
Tom WaitsTom Waits The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
Tom WaitsTom Waits The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
Tom WaitsTom Waits 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.
Tom WaitsTom Waits The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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