There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
TOM WAITSThe devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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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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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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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’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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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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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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