Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing… — 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
I don't like listening to records a lot after they're done. There's just no real nourishment there for me. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
My wife, when I met her, she had a remarkable record collection. And they were all still in their sleeves! I couldn't… — 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
