When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
TOM WAITSI always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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.
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I was always laughing in church.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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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 don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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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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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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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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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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