I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
TOM WAITSSongs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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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.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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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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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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