The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
TOM WAITSI’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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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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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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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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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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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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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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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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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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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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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 like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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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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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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