I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
TOM WAITSI sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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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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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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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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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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