Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
TOM WAITSWell you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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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 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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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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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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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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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.
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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