I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
TOM WAITSThere’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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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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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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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’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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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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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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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