You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITSThe Universe is making music all the time.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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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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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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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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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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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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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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