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
TOM WAITSI 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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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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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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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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