Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITSDon’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
More Tom Waits Quotes
-
-
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.
TOM WAITS -
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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 -
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
TOM WAITS -
The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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 -
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
TOM WAITS -
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
TOM WAITS -
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
TOM WAITS -
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITS -
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
TOM WAITS -
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
TOM WAITS -
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
TOM WAITS -
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
TOM WAITS -
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITS