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.
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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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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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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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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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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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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