Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
TOM WAITSThe devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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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 guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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