Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITS
TOM WAITS
Tom Waits
Tom Waits126 quotes“Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.”
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Tom WaitsTom Waits I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
Tom WaitsTom Waits Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
Tom WaitsTom Waits It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Tom WaitsTom Waits I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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