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Them Quotes by Tom Waits
- Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
- People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and…
- The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take…
- Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind…
- If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in…
- You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want…
- I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
- People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't so…
- 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…
- I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those…
- I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it.…
- 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.
- All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want…
- 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…
- Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not…
- 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…
- There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time,…
- The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!
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