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.
TOM WAITSWe are all just monkeys with money and guns.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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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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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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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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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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