The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
TOM WAITSWriting songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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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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I was always laughing in church.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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