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One Quotes by Tom Waits
- If I want to walk out in the desert and heat up a can of beans on a fire, I still can. In those movies…
- When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart…
- 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…
- Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me.
- I'm not one of those people the tabloids chase around.
- For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them…
- 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…
- This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little…
- I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being…
- 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…
- 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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