450 Quotes by Tom Waits

Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.

Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.

It’s the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.

I’m usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.

You choke my days, I’ll choke yours.

I’m so goddamn horny, the crack of dawn better be careful around me!

People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it’s an indication that the songs aren’t so ultra-personal that they can’t possibly be interpreted by anyone else.

And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget that history puts a saint in every dream.