I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
TOM WAITSGot a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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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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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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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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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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