The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
TOM WAITSI’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I was always laughing in church.
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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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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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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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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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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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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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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 the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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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.
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