it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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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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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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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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