Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
TOM WAITSThe dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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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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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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My 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.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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