RobertHaigh's Quotes Page #23

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Leonard Cohen  Famous Quote

added 4 years ago

It's always sad when you start to hate what you love. ― Chrissie Hynde, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

Chrissie Hynde  Famous Quote

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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  Famous Quote

added 4 years ago

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

Tom Waits  Famous Quote

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No matter how long it takes, true love is always worth the wait.

Tom Waits  Famous Quote

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

Tom Waits  Famous Quote

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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Tom Waits  Famous Quote

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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  Famous Quote

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There's not much difference between what I appear to be on stage and what I am. I think people like that, that I'm not trying to pull a caper.

Tom Waits  Famous Quote

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I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.

Tom Waits  Famous Quote

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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  Famous Quote

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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  Famous Quote

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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  Famous Quote

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Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you.

Tom Waits  Famous Quote

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Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

Tom Waits  Famous Quote

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As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

Tom Waits  Famous Quote

added 4 years ago

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

Tom Waits  Famous Quote

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George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

Tom Waits  Famous Quote

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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

Tom Waits  Famous Quote

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I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

Tom Waits  Famous Quote

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When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

Paul Simon  Famous Quote

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Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.

Paul Simon  Famous Quote

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I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

John Prine  Famous Quote

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Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

Dolly Parton  Famous Quote

added 4 years ago

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