Collected Meditations
Showing 12 quotesMost people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.— Tom Waits
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Truth
Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.— Tom Waits
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Music
Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.— Tom Waits
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Morning
I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.— Tom Waits
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Learning
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
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Imagination
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.— Tom Waits
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Imagination
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
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Hope
Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.— Tom Waits
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History
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.— Tom Waits