I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
TOM WAITSThe earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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 piano has been drinking, not me.
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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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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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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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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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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’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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