I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
TOM WAITSI started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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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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You 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?
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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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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There’s no prayer like desire.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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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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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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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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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.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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