I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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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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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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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
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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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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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