Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
TOM WAITSDon’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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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.
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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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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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