Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
TOM WAITSSongs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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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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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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