Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITSWell you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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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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The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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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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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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