I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
TOM WAITSWe have a deficit of wonder right now.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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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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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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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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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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There’s no prayer like desire.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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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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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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