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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.

Tom Waits

The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
TOM WAITS

Talk Truth Yourself
Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
TOM WAITS

Break Children Fall Live Time Window Yourself
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
TOM WAITS

Kill Kiss Myself See
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.
TOM WAITS

Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
TOM WAITS

Forest Herself Live
The Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITS

Music Time Universe
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
TOM WAITS

Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
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.
TOM WAITS

Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
TOM WAITS

Act Actor Difference Myself
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITS

Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
TOM WAITS

Culture Known Music Myself Planet Topic
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
TOM WAITS

Gentle Man Play
You’re innocent when you dream.
TOM WAITS

Dreams Innocence Yourself
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
TOM WAITS

Angel Devil Myself
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Monkey Reality Weapon
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Past Secret

Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.

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