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.
TOM WAITSI always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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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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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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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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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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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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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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