I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITSI’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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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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I was always laughing in church.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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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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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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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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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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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 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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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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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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