it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
TOM WAITSNew York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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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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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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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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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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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’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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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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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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