The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITSThe big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITSThe Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITSA gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
TOM WAITSI do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
TOM WAITSThe way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITSI 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.
TOM WAITSWe are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITSI like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
TOM WAITSThere’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITSWell I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
TOM WAITSYou’re innocent when you dream.
TOM WAITSI never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITSIt’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
TOM WAITSI made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
TOM WAITSArithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
TOM WAITSFor 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.
TOM WAITS