Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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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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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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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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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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I was always laughing in church.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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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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