She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
TOM WAITSMostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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I was always laughing in church.
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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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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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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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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