The line "Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse" is a quote from the character Nick Romano from Willard Motley\'s 1947 novel "Knock on Any Door", a story of life on Skid Row in Chicago at the time.\nThe book was made into a movie in 1949. I haven\'t seen the movie, but no doubt that line was in it, and is likely where Waits got it from, it\'s a very cool line that I used to quote often, a lifetime ago.
The line "Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse" is a quote from the character Nick Romano from Willard Motley\'s 1947 novel "Knock on Any Door", a story of life on Skid Row in Chicago at the time.\nThe book was made into a movie in 1949. I haven\'t seen the movie, but no doubt that line was in it, and is likely where Waits got it from, it\'s a very cool line that I used to quote often, a lifetime ago.