Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITSYou 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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 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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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 have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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