If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
TOM WAITSI’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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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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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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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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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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