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.
TOM WAITSI made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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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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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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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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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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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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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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