Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
TOM WAITSSing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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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 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.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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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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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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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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