Tom Waits Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

Tom Waits quotes and sayings page 4 (74 year old musician). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 77 we have for him.

“I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.”

“Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.”

“I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.”

“I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.”

“It's hard to win when you always lose.”

“The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.”

“I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.”

“Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.”

“You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.”