Quote

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.

Tom Waits

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Pomona
California
Thomas Alan Waits
People
Exciting
Poetry
Happen
Comes
Happens
Thought
Music
Occur
Things
Changes

More quotes by Tom Waits

Image
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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
There's truths there that spiral out of what appears to be just a word game. That's what I find mystifying about the meanings of things: they kind of unscrew themselves from the practical words.
Tom Waits
Image
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.
Tom Waits
Image
Unfortunately, I made the mistake at one point of putting my address on the back of one of my albums, just to find out what would happen. I received a lot of disturbing mail and calls. Actually, I was living in a hotel, so it was easy enough to find the number. I got a kick out of it for a while. Then I realized what I'd done.
Tom Waits
Image
You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.
Tom Waits
Image
Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town
Tom Waits
Image
When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.
Tom Waits
Image
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
Tom Waits
Image
The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone
Tom Waits
Image
Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.
Tom Waits
Image
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong… I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
Tom Waits
Image
slept all night in the cedar grove, i was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin' for the holy grail, but there ain't nothin' sweeter than ridin' the rails
Tom Waits
Image
Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.
Tom Waits
Image
If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.
Tom Waits
Image
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
Tom Waits
Image
There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.
Tom Waits
Image
I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
Tom Waits
Image
The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business
Tom Waits
Image
If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.
Tom Waits