And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITSChampagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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