I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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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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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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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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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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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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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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