The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
TOM WAITSI hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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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.
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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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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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