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.
TOM WAITSDon’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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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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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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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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 big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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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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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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