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Tom Waits Quotes

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American Musician December 7, 1949

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The higher that the monkey can climb, the more he shows his tail. Call no man happy till he dies, there's no milk at the bottom of the pail. God builds a church and the devil builds a chapel, like the thistles that are growing 'round the trunk of a tree. All the good in the world you could put inside a thimble, and still have room for you and me. If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man. You can drive out nature with a pitchfork, but it always coming... Tom Waits
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... Tom Waits
Tom Waits quote: "They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work..."
They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing. Tom Waits
Tom Waits quote: "I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur..."
I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess. Tom Waits
Tom Waits quote: "Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church."
Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church. Tom Waits

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