I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
TOM WAITSOh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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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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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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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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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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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 was always laughing in church.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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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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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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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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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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