But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
TOM WAITSI’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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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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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 big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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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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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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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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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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