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.
TOM WAITSTime is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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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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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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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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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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