Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
TOM WAITSNew York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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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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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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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 trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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