I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie. by Tom Waits

I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.

Tom Waits

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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, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

important trying fall

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post. by Tom Waits

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.

midget fence-post sarcastic

I was always laughing in church. by Tom Waits

I was always laughing in church.

always-laughing church laughing

There's no prayer like desire. by Tom Waits

There's no prayer like desire.

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

lying america ideas

The Music was like Electric Sugar by Tom Waits

The Music was like Electric Sugar

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 hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle.

home wrestling thinking

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some act... by Tom Waits

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

differences actors acting

I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand. by Tom Waits

I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand.

dollars evil hands

the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by by Tom Waits

the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by

passing-by earth home

I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that. by Tom Waits

I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.

adrenaline addiction thinking

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'

dust song thinking

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

song men children

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have a... by Tom Waits

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.

The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand... by Tom Waits

The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand...

devil knows hands

We have a deficit of wonder right now. by Tom Waits

We have a deficit of wonder right now.

deficit right-now wonder

Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

imagination men reality

I'm trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It's like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.

water hands ideas

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

soldier rivers long

I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train. by Tom Waits

I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.

evening yellow window