Quote

It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.

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
Anything
Music
Ignores
Important
Component
Like
Components
Purely
Terrible
Economic

More quotes by Tom Waits

Image
The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone
Tom Waits
Image
George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.
Tom Waits
Image
Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.
Tom Waits
Image
Jesus Christ, this godamn rain, will someone put me on a train.
Tom Waits
Image
If you walk with Jesus, he's gonna save your soul. You gotta keep the devil way down in the hole. He's got the fire and the fury at his command.
Tom Waits
Image
That for me is more important than anything when you're in the studio - to have somebody you can trust and who knows you, knows who you are and doesn't let you get away with anything.
Tom Waits
Image
I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.
Tom Waits
Image
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
Image
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars
Tom Waits
Image
When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind of go, 'Sure. Sure you are, son.'
Tom Waits
Image
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
Tom Waits
Image
but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.
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
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead
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
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
Tom Waits
Image
It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang.
Tom Waits
Image
It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.
Tom Waits
Image
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 whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.
Tom Waits
Image
There's a place down the street Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin.
Tom Waits