I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there. Tom Waits More Quotes by Tom Waits More Quotes From Tom Waits Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they're carrying is you. Tom Waits suitcases blue attitude I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick from the 1700s, that's dog food from the turn of the century, that's a hat from World War II. I'm interested in the minutiae of things. Oddities. Tom Waits oddities dog war They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases. Tom Waits filling-up years ideas I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain. Tom Waits eccentric brain rooms She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet. Tom Waits evil feet fall I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be. Tom Waits halos blind eye 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. Tom Waits party people thinking Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On Tom Waits records home song Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to build. Films are overwhelming in their magnitude and scope. By comparison, a lot of film directors wish they were writing songs because you can do it while getting your hair cut. Tom Waits cutting writing song 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. Tom Waits writing song ideas Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping? Tom Waits devil sleep world I'm not one of those people the tabloids chase around. Tom Waits tabloids people George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved. Tom Waits vaudeville performers My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Tom Waits imagination men reality It's hard to win when you always lose. Tom Waits hard loses winning I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. Tom Waits timer upside-down want 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 spirals kind games There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing it while you are doing other things. Not that that is new - people have had music on in the background as long as there has been music. Tom Waits play long people Disneyland is Vegas for children. Tom Waits disneyland vegas children God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business! Tom Waits boiler-room
