I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
TOM WAITSDid the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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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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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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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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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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I was always laughing in church.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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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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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 like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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