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.
TOM WAITSNever trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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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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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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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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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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