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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Tom Waits

The piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITS

Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITS

Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
TOM WAITS

Admire Death Feeling People
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITS

Away Big Small
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.
TOM WAITS

Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
TOM WAITS

Forest Herself Live
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
TOM WAITS

Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
TOM WAITS

Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
TOM WAITS

Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITS

Action Style Way Yourself
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Past Secret
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
TOM WAITS

Alcohol Blood Myself
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
TOM WAITS

Fall Kind Yourself
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
TOM WAITS

Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITS

Air Interest Song
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
TOM WAITS

Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself

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