Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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The 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.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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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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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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I 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.
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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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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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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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