I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
TOM WAITSI don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
TOM WAITSBreak windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
TOM WAITSThe Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITSNot the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
TOM WAITSIf people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
TOM WAITSI’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITSThe ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
TOM WAITSChampagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITSThe beginning of it starts at the end.
TOM WAITSI have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
TOM WAITSMost of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITSDid the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
TOM WAITSI 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 WAITSWell, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
TOM WAITSFor a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
TOM WAITSAll the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITS