I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
TOM WAITSTime is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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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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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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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 my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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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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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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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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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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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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