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 WAITSThe folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
More Tom Waits Quotes
-
-
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
TOM WAITS -
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
TOM WAITS -
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
TOM WAITS -
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
TOM WAITS -
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
TOM WAITS -
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
TOM WAITS -
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
TOM WAITS -
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
TOM WAITS -
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
TOM WAITS -
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITS -
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 -
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
TOM WAITS -
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
TOM WAITS -
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
TOM WAITS -
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
TOM WAITS