When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
TOM WAITSYou’re innocent when you dream.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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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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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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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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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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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. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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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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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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