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TOM WAITSI did my time in the jail of your arms.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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You 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.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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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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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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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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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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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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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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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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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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