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 WAITSI like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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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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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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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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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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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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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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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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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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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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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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