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.
TOM WAITSThe earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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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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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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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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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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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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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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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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