I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
TOM WAITSWhen I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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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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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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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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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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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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