Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITSI always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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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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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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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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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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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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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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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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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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