Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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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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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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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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