Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
TOM WAITSAll that you’ve loved is all you own.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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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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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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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 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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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
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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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.
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