On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
TOM WAITSI did my time in the jail of your arms.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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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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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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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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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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