Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITSYou got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
More Tom Waits Quotes
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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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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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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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’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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