Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITSYou’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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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.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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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 don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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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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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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