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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

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

I'm always looking for sounds...

I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

I’ve always believed that the...

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

If you get far enough away yo...

If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.

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They have removed the struggl...

They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing we know getting along the birth canal, out in the world. It's pretty basic. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you'd go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

Somebody said I sound like an...

Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.

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

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

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

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

The only thing worse than bei...

The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

If you record the sound of ba...

If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

You hope people are going to ...

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

I always had a great apprecia...

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 is vocabulary.

Tom Waits 273 quotes

If people are a little nervou...

If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again.

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I guess I've always lived ups...

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

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George Burns was a Vaudeville...

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....