We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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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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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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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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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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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.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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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 started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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