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 WAITSI did my time in the jail of your arms.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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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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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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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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The Universe is making music all the time.
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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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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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