The piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITSThe earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
More Tom Waits Quotes
-
-
I was always laughing in church.
TOM WAITS -
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 -
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
TOM WAITS -
You’re innocent when you dream.
TOM WAITS -
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
TOM WAITS -
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
TOM WAITS -
I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
TOM WAITS -
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 -
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
TOM WAITS -
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
TOM WAITS -
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
TOM WAITS -
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 -
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 -
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITS -
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
TOM WAITS