There's not much difference between what I appear to be on stage and what I am. I think people like that, that… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
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
You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Some day I'm gonna be gone and people will be listening to my songs and conjuring me up. In order for that… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things… — 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
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this."… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what… — 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'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page. Some people write for the page, and… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
You know, we just buy music now. We don't make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the… — 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
