There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITSI like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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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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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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