I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
TOM WAITSI never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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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.
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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