The Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITSIf I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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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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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Children 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.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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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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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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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.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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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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