I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
TOM WAITSNot the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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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 don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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