Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITSI sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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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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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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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 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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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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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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