I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
TOM WAITSThere’s no prayer like desire.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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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 beginning of it starts at the end.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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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You’re innocent when you dream.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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