All Tom Waits Quotes
- I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. Always Lived
- My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Blind
- I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it.… Aware
- 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 by it. Care
- As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted… Big
- I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas. Disneyland
- It's hard to win when you always lose. Always Lose
- Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's… Ago
- Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting. Amount
- You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually… Actually Takes
- Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop. Any
- Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you. Gaining
- Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs. Cautionary
- All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want… All
- The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the… Blues
- George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved. Burns
- I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else. Buck
- The piano has been drinking, not me. Been
- But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the… Afraid
- Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to… Bat
- The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini… Atomic
- You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music… Each
- Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it. Either Kiss
- I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately. Been
- Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On Called