I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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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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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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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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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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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 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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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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