I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
TOM WAITSThe Universe is making music all the time.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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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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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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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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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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