Tom Waits Quotes - Page 11

He said, I'm better off without her, until I showed him my tattoo.

My friends think I'm ugly, I gotta masculine face.

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

Francis Ford Coppola is completely unconventional. He has a strong sense of loyalty. Great eyes. It's a diabolical undertaking in terms of organization and leadership.

It wasn't good for my nerves, that kind of work - a fireman. I've got high blood pressure. I get upset easily. I don't think that was a proper career alternative for me.

Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too.

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!

I'm trying to learn how to write faster.

There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine.

When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street in a dress and a funny hat and nothing's gonna make it rain. I go through periods - or spells - when I'm more receptive.

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

I don't know what the 'big time' is.

I really like your playing

Got 27 children I never see.

Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they're carrying is you.

People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't so ultra-personal that they can't possibly be interpreted by anyone else.

Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together.

Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.

I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.

They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

Jesus Christ, this godamn rain, will someone put me on a train.