I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
TOM WAITSDid the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
More Tom Waits Quotes
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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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 dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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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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