QUOTES by Tom Waits
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When you are writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.
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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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Hell is boiling over. And heaven is full. We're chained to the world. And we all gotta pull. And we're all gonna be ...just dirt in the ground".
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I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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You must have brought the bad weather with you The sky's the color of lead All you've left me is a feather On an unmade bed
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.
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Bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.
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I worry about a lot of things, but I don’t worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven.
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I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.
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When your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans
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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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My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.
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Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On
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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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When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.
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