450 Quotes by Tom Waits

You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It’s like that with music – parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.

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

The Music was like Electric Sugar.

Misery is the River of the World.

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it’s hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

When the weather’s rough and it’s whiskey in the rain it’s best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

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.

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

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.