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.
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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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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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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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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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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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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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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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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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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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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