When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
TOM WAITSWe are all just monkeys with money and guns.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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 always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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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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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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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 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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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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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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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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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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