It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
TOM WAITSNever have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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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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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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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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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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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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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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I was always laughing in church.
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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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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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