I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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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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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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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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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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I was always laughing in church.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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I 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.
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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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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 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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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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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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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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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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