People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
TOM WAITSI like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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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.
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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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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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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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