And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITSYou’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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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 think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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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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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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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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