Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
TOM WAITSYou’re innocent when you dream.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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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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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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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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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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