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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

Tom Waits

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
TOM WAITS

Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITS

Desire One Liner Prayer
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
TOM WAITS

Myself Prayer Religious
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 WAITS

Born Myself Night Search Sleep Sweet
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.
TOM WAITS

Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITS

Donut Name Prostitute Sound
The beginning of it starts at the end.
TOM WAITS

Beginning End Start
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.
TOM WAITS

Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITS

Initial Myself Scratch
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITS

Known Trust Yourself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
TOM WAITS

Dumb Intelligence Mental
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
TOM WAITS

Evening Myself Train
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 WAITS

Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
TOM WAITS

Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITS

Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
The piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITS

Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano

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