There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I can't listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You're just… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“an all time favorite: "The large print giveth, the small print taketh away.” — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
