Sound Quotes 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…

— Tom Waits

Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.

— Tom Waits

Don't plant your days they turn into weeds

— Tom Waits

“T’ain’t no sin to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones.”

— Tom Waits

“an all time favorite: "The large print giveth, the small print taketh away.”

— Tom Waits

I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past…

— 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…

— Tom Waits

I'm trying to learn how to write faster.

— Tom Waits

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Tom Waits

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

— Tom Waits

The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.

— 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…

— Tom Waits