Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITSWell, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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I was always laughing in church.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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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 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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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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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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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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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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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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