Tom Waits Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.”

“I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own.”

“I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.”

“As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.”

“I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.”

“Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you.”

“I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.”

“There's not much difference between what I appear to be on stage and what I am. I think people like that, that I'm not trying to pull a caper.”

“I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.”

“I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.”