Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITSChildren 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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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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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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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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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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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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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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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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