Quote

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.

Tom Waits

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Waits
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Pomona
California
Thomas Alan Waits
Culture
Else
Anything
Music
Genres
Whole
Division
Think
Marketing
Thinking
Genre
Terrible

More quotes by Tom Waits

Image
but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.
Tom Waits
Image
There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.
Tom Waits
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
Image
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you know about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
Tom Waits
Image
If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.
Tom Waits
Image
There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do anything during the time when I wrote no songs. I was creative, but in another way. I had ideas for songs and collected the ideas.
Tom Waits
Image
It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang.
Tom Waits
Image
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
Tom Waits
Image
I'm not one of those people the tabloids chase around.
Tom Waits
Image
I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand.
Tom Waits
Image
The Universe is making music all the time.
Tom Waits
Image
He said, I'm better off without her, until I showed him my tattoo.
Tom Waits
Image
For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school you learn by listening to tunes.
Tom Waits
Image
Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.
Tom Waits
Image
Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?
Tom Waits
Image
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
Tom Waits
Image
Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.
Tom Waits
Image
I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.
Tom Waits
Image
I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
Tom Waits
Image
You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.
Tom Waits