Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
TOM WAITSOh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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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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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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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 turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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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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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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