Phrase by 'Tom Waits'

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Most 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.

Author: Tom Waits - American Musician
  You , People , Long , Truth


Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

Author: Tom Waits - American Musician


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.

Author: Tom Waits - American Musician
  You , People , Good , Clown


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.

Author: Tom Waits - American Musician
  Always , Think , Great , Appreciation


George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

Author: Tom Waits - American Musician
  Me , See , He , Mine


I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.

Author: Tom Waits - American Musician
  Years , Restaurant , Altar , Ray Charles


My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Author: Tom Waits - American Musician
  Man , Reality , Imagination , Blind


Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

Author: Tom Waits - American Musician
  You , See , Like , Image


When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

Author: Tom Waits - American Musician
  You , Sometimes , Way , Brave


The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

Author: Tom Waits - American Musician
  Woman , Island , Sight , Bikini


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