I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITSIf there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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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’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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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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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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