Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
TOM WAITSA mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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I was always laughing in church.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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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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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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