Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITSI’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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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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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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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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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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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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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 world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Never 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.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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