There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITS
TOM WAITS
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
Tom WaitsTom Waits 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 WaitsTom Waits 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.
Tom WaitsTom Waits If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
Tom WaitsTom Waits If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I did my time in the jail of your arms.
Tom WaitsTom Waits You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
Tom WaitsTom Waits If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
Tom WaitsTom Waits We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
Tom WaitsTom Waits 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.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
Tom WaitsTom Waits The piano has been drinking, not me.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
Tom WaitsTom Waits The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
Tom WaitsTom Waits It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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