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You have to keep busy. After ...

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

Children make up the best son...

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 paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

I started out with nothing an...

I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

Don't plant your bad days. Th...

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

There's always free cheddar i...

There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

Mostly I straddle reality and...

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.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

You cannot really be too conc...

You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

All the donuts have names tha...

All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes

Tom Waits 273 quotes

I'm interested in things when...

I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick from the 1700s, that's dog food from the turn of the century, that's a hat from World War II. I'm interested in the minutiae of things. Oddities.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

There’s nothing more embarras...

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.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

There's nothing that makes me...

There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

I like turning on two radios...

I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong… I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

The world is a hellish place,...

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

It's very hard to stop doing ...

It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

If you're a writer, you know ...

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 the lobby: that's where the stories were.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

I have an audio stigmatism wh...

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

Tom Waits 273 quotes

When you're a kid and you're ...

When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

People say all kinds of thing...

People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

I have a Chamberlain I bought...

I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops. It has 60 voices - everything from galloping horses to owls to rain to every instrument in the orchestra.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

If you are making a record, y...

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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