Tom Waits Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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

  Art, People, Mail

  "Tom Waits - Eccentric in the Very Best Sense". Interview with Charles Champlin, articles.latimes.com. January 14, 1988.

• I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

  Tom Waits

  Art, Sound, Annoying

• 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

  Art, Player, Bird

• I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.

  Tom Waits

  Art, Gone, Pieces

• Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.

  Tom Waits

  Art, Media, June

  Song: Small Change, Album: Small Change

• Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.

  Tom Waits

  Art, Fall, Kids

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