You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
TOM WAITSI’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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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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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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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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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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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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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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