It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
TOM WAITSThe piano has been drinking, not me.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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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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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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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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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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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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