And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITSYou have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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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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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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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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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I was always laughing in church.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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