If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
TOM WAITSI’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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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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 like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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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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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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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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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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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.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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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.
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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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