I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
TOM WAITSI have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
TOM WAITSWhen your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
TOM WAITSI think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
TOM WAITSWell you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
TOM WAITSChampagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITSMy wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
TOM WAITSWe are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITSThe 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 WAITSThe Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITSI like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
TOM WAITSDon’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITSI’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 WAITSWriting songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
TOM WAITSI started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
TOM WAITSOn my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
TOM WAITSI’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
TOM WAITS