“ A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t. ”
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“ My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day. ”
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“ The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. ”
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“ He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle. ”
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“ The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. ”
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“ The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. ”
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“ Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor,... While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers. ”
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“ Inside a broken clockSplashing the wineWith all the rain dogsTaxi, we'd rather walkHuddle a doorway with the Rain DogsFor I am a Rain Dog, too. ”
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“ Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor,... While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers. ”
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“ How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on? ”
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“ Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor,... While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers. ”
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“ The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human experience, when it should inspire and elevate. ”
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“ Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor,... While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers. ”
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“ Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream. ”
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“ The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human experience, when it should inspire and elevate. ”
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“ Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor,... While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers. ”
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“ Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor,... While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers. ”
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“ I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. ”
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“ How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on? ”
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“ Inside a broken clockSplashing the wineWith all the rain dogsTaxi, we'd rather walkHuddle a doorway with the Rain DogsFor I am a Rain Dog, too. ”
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“ I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth. ”
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“ I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth. ”
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