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.
TOM WAITSYou’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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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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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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