When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure. Tom Waits More Quotes by Tom Waits More Quotes From Tom Waits Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier. Tom Waits rocks ocean hands There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that. Tom Waits funeral laughing people Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. Tom Waits writing song morning You've gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot. Tom Waits knows You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her. Tom Waits party If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them up and finding different ways of saying the same thing... I get into a spell, and it all comes easy. I don't labor over it. I go inside the song, I think you make yourself an antenna for songs, and songs want to be around you. And then they bring other songs along, and then they're all sitting around, and they're drinkin' your beer, and they're sleeping on the floor. And they are using the phone, they're rude, thankless little f---ers. Tom Waits drinking sleep song Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built. Tom Waits bills vision brain You're innocent when you dream. Tom Waits innocent innocence dream I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride. Tom Waits car keys pride If I want to walk out in the desert and heat up a can of beans on a fire, I still can. In those movies like Gattaca or whatever, the space age stuff is always all there is. But in the world there is never just one way of living. It's more like a big junkyard. Put it this way: I'm not afraid I'm going to end up on a space station in aluminium-foil underwear. Tom Waits space fire age 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 mail people art 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. Tom Waits cds player hands Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time. Tom Waits smoking song thinking The big print giveth and the small print taketh away. Tom Waits print bigs money The Universe is making music all the time. Tom Waits universe it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones Tom Waits bones sin skins I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out. Tom Waits horny cracks dawn It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose. Tom Waits player bird art Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church. Tom Waits wells church knows The piano has been drinking, not me. Tom Waits piano music drinking
