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Music Quotes by Tom Waits
- I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
- I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
- Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.
- I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a…
- What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are…
- Popular music is like a big party, and it’s a thrill sneaking in rather than being invited. Every once in a while, a guy with…
- Words are music, really.
- With families and music, you're usually looking for something that can make you unique.
- Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.
- But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the…
- You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music…
- The Music was like Electric Sugar
- but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.
- I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
- The Universe is making music all the time.
- He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my…
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