When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure. Tom Waits More Quotes by Tom Waits More Quotes From Tom Waits And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming. Tom Waits died earth dream The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable. Tom Waits impact musical tree I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas. Tom Waits vegas hate kids The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me. Tom Waits life-is facts people Don't plant your days they turn into weeds Tom Waits turns weed plant You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on? Tom Waits angel strong sleep Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. Tom Waits ohio dog years There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. Tom Waits cheddar baby The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change. Tom Waits light average two I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way. Tom Waits bells oil fun I put food on the table Tom Waits roof tomorrow tables You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you. Tom Waits kids Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at. Tom Waits wheels kind fall 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 apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too. Tom Waits listening trying school Jimmy Stewart said he stopped making movies because he didn't like the way he looked on screen anymore. I'm more the guy who says I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me. Tom Waits guy looks way My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album. Tom Waits wife men thinking I can't listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You're just processing too much, there's no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears. Tom Waits too-much long thinking She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you. Tom Waits fearless artist world On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick." Tom Waits life funny death Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs Tom Waits vagabonds waiting long
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