Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
TOM WAITSOh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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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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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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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 whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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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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