I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
TOM WAITSThere’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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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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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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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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 got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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