Tom Waits Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tom Waits
Tom Waits Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Tom Waits on Wise Famous Quotes.
You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.
When your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy ... and be nourished by.
Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.
When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.
It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.
Bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks ... you really have to be on your toes all the time.
hell is boiling over. And heaven is full. We're chained to the world. And we all gotta pull. And we're all gonna be ...just dirt in the ground".
You got to tell me the brave captain
Why are the wicked so strong?
How do the angels get to sleep
When the devil leaves the porch light on?
Why are the wicked so strong?
How do the angels get to sleep
When the devil leaves the porch light on?
I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'
(When asked for advice for younger musicians) Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.
You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
You must have brought the bad weather with you
The sky's the color of lead
All you've left me is a feather
On an unmade bed
The sky's the color of lead
All you've left me is a feather
On an unmade bed
It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.
There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.
Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
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.
There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.