I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
TOM WAITSI’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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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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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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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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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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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 average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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