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Thinking Quotes by Tom Waits
- My friends think I'm ugly, I gotta masculine face.
- Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the…
- I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. My wife actually thinks I have a syndrome called Reality Distortion…
- 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.
- I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.
- I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument…
- My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
- 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…
- 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…
- Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to…
- 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…
- 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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