Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITSIf I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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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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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 put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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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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You’re innocent when you dream.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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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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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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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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There’s no prayer like desire.
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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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