I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
TOM WAITSI like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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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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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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There’s no prayer like desire.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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