You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
TOM WAITSBill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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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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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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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.
TOM WAITS