We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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 I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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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’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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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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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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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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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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I 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.
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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 look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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