If 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 WAITSThe trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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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.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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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 learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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I was always laughing in church.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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