The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITSSing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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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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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’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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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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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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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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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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There’s no prayer like desire.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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