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From Quotes by Tom Waits
- The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone
- Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take…
- I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. My wife actually thinks I have a syndrome called Reality Distortion…
- I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand.
- I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.
- She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet.
- I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick from the 1700s,…
- You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
- 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…
- and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades
- This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little…
- I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand
- He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my…
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