I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
TOM WAITSTheir 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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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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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 innocent when you dream.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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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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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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