--- title: "12 Hands Quotes By Tom Waits" description: "12 Hands quotes by Tom Waits. Plus more from Tom Waits and more Hands sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/tom-waits-916_dollars_i-took-a-hundred-dollars-from-a-blindman_1764936.jpg" --- > [I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/i-took-a-hundred-dollars-from-a-blindman-s-hand/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/tom-waits-916_dollars_i-took-a-hundred-dollars-from-a-blindman_1764936.jpg) > [The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/the-devil-knows-the-bible-like-the-back-of-his-hand/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea1/tom-waits-916_bible_the-devil-knows-the-bible-like-the-back_91592.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/there-s-a-lot-of-intelligence-in-the-hands-when-you-pick-up-a-shovel/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e98/tom-waits-916_hands_there-s-a-lot-of-intelligence-in-the-han_2277145.jpg) > [Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/arithmetic-arithmetock-turn-the-hands-back-on-the-clock-how-does-the/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a9/tom-waits-916_arithmetic_arithmetic-arithmetock-turn-the-hands-ba_196528.jpg) > [I'm trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It's like carrying water in your hands. I want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/i-m-trying-to-get-music-ideas-that-come-and-keep-them-alive-it-s-like/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1c/tom-waits-916_alive_i-m-trying-to-get-music-ideas-that-come_656554.jpg) > [You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/you-know-what-i-really-love-the-cd-players-in-a-car-how-when-you-put/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/788/tom-waits-916_car_you-know-what-i-really-love-the-cd-playe_1612029.jpg) > [Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/most-songs-have-meager-beginnings-you-wake-up-in-the-morning-you/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72e/tom-waits-916_bats_most-songs-have-meager-beginnings-you-wa_2026982.jpg) > [All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/all-medical-procedures-require-two-hands-so-in-a-sense-it-s-like-when/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a69/tom-waits-916_hands_all-medical-procedures-require-two-hands_480956.jpg) > [Well you wave your hand and they scatter like crows They have nothing that will ever capture your heart They're just thorns…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/well-you-wave-your-hand-and-they-scatter-like-crows-they-have-nothing/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/026/tom-waits-916_baby_well-you-wave-your-hand-and-they-scatter_1835321.jpg) > [Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/your-hands-are-like-dogs-going-to-the-same-places-they-ve-been-you/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/177/tom-waits-916_absolutely-nothing_your-hands-are-like-dogs-going-to-the-sa_2878447.jpg) > [If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/if-you-are-recording-you-are-recording-i-don-t-believe-there-is-such/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b43/tom-waits-916_anatomy_if-you-are-recording-you-are-recording-i_1039679.jpg) > [He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/he-likes-a-day-in-the-studio-to-end-he-says-when-my-knees-are-all/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31f/tom-waits-916_ankles_he-likes-a-day-in-the-studio-to-end-he-s_1355254.jpg) ## Other authors on Hands ## More by Tom Waits > [Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/most-of-us-have-the-residue-of-thousands-of-songs-in-our-ears-that-if/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) > [Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/bill-hicks-blowtorch-excavator-truthsayer-and-brain-specialist-he/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) > [Don't plant your days they turn into weeds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/don-t-plant-your-days-they-turn-into-weeds/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) > [“T’ain’t no sin to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/t-ain-t-no-sin-to-take-off-your-skin-and-dance-around-in-your-bones/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) > [“an all time favorite: "The large print giveth, the small print taketh away.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/an-all-time-favorite-the-large-print-giveth-the-small-print-taketh/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) > [I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/i-ll-tell-you-all-my-secrets-but-i-lie-about-my-past/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) > [For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/for-a-songwriter-you-don-t-really-go-to-songwriting-school-you-learn/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) > [I'm trying to learn how to write faster.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/i-m-trying-to-learn-how-to-write-faster/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) > [The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/the-world-is-a-hellish-place-and-bad-writing-is-destroying-the/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) > [I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/i-m-always-looking-for-sounds-that-are-pleasing-at-the-time-the-sound/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) > [I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/i-was-born-in-the-back-seat-of-a-yellow-cab-in-a-hospital-loading/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) > [There's not much difference between what I appear to be on stage and what I am. I think people like that, that I'm not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/there-s-not-much-difference-between-what-i-appear-to-be-on-stage-and/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) > [Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/most-of-the-things-you-absorb-you-will-ultimately-secrete/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) > [The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/the-devil-knows-the-bible-like-the-back-of-his-hand/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) > [I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/i-bark-my-voice-out-through-a-closed-throat-pretty-much-it-s-more/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hands/tom-waits/#itemlist", "name": "12 Hands Quotes By Tom Waits", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tom Waits" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/i-took-a-hundred-dollars-from-a-blindman-s-hand/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/tom-waits-916_dollars_i-took-a-hundred-dollars-from-a-blindman_1764936.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/tom-waits-916_dollars_i-took-a-hundred-dollars-from-a-blindman_1764936.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/tom-waits-916_dollars_i-took-a-hundred-dollars-from-a-blindman_1764936.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand.” — Tom Waits", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tom Waits" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/the-devil-knows-the-bible-like-the-back-of-his-hand/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea1/tom-waits-916_bible_the-devil-knows-the-bible-like-the-back_91592.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea1/tom-waits-916_bible_the-devil-knows-the-bible-like-the-back_91592.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea1/tom-waits-916_bible_the-devil-knows-the-bible-like-the-back_91592.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.” — Tom Waits", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. 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A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tom Waits" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/all-medical-procedures-require-two-hands-so-in-a-sense-it-s-like-when/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a69/tom-waits-916_hands_all-medical-procedures-require-two-hands_480956.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a69/tom-waits-916_hands_all-medical-procedures-require-two-hands_480956.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a69/tom-waits-916_hands_all-medical-procedures-require-two-hands_480956.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. 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