Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
TOM WAITSI like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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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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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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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 guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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