I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
TOM WAITSI dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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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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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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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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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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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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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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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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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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