I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITSI’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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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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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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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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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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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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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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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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