it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
TOM WAITSI like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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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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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 beginning of it starts at the end.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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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’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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