450 Quotes by Tom Waits

Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.

You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.

I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand.

New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.

We have a deficit of wonder right now.

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

I really like your playing

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

All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things that they use in their work: They call them instruments. A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music.