Tom Waits Quotes

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• There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.

  Tom Waits

  Baby, Cheddar

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  We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

  Tom Waits

  Happiness, Money, Confused

  "Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.

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• I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.

  Tom Waits

  Acceptance, Attachment, Whatsapp

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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.

  Tom Waits

  Bad Day, Years, Ems

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  A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

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  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

  Tom Waits

  Dog, Moving, Car

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• The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

  Tom Waits

  Truth, Talking, Clue

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• Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, "You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!" said the straight tree. He said, "I'm tall and I'm straight." And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, "Cut all the straight trees." And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.

  Tom Waits

  Strong, Cutting, Tree

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• I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

  Tom Waits

  Music, Beautiful, Terrible

  "Tom Waits: A Raspy Voice Heads To The Hall Of Fame". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 21, 2002.

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• I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.

  Tom Waits

  Seeds, Left, Pulp

  "'It's perfect madness'" by Tom Waits, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2005.

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  If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.

  Tom Waits

  Home, Way, Enough

  Song: Blind Love, Album: Rain Dogs

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  The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

  Tom Waits

  Writing, Suffering, Quality

  "Strange Innocence". Interview with J. T. LeRoy, July 2001.

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• Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.

  Tom Waits

  Running, Age, Stories

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• Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

  Tom Waits

  Lying, Long, People

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• Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

  Tom Waits

  Friends, Pain, Real

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• The way you do anything is the way you do everything.

  Tom Waits

  Way

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• The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

  Tom Waits

  Money, Bigs, Print

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• Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

  Tom Waits

  Drunk, Alcohol, Religion

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• Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.

  Tom Waits

  Dream, Rainbow, Stealing

  Song: Diamonds and Gold, Album: Rain Dogs

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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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  Song, Eye, Ears

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• You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.

  Tom Waits

  Adventure, Thinking, Discovery

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• Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.

  Tom Waits

  Philosophy, Use, Woods

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• Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Writing, Bird

  FaceBook post by Tom Waits from Nov 11, 2009

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• If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.

  Tom Waits

  Angel, Devil, May

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• The beginning of it starts at the end

  Tom Waits

  Ends

  Song: Walk Away

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