Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
TOM WAITSThe piano has been drinking, not me.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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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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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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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’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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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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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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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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