I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
TOM WAITSWell, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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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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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 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 sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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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 dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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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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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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