You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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 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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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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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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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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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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