The piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITSSing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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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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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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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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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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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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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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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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