I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
TOM WAITSThe Universe is making music all the time.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on 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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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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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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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’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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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 sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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