Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
TOM WAITSThe piano has been drinking, not me.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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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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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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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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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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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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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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