Tom Waits Quotes About Dogs

Quotes about: Dogs

• You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

  Tom Waits

  Dog, Moving, Car

• It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.

  Tom Waits

  Dog, Horse, Men

  Song: The Fall of Troy

• The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.

  Tom Waits

  Dog, Hate, Night

• Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone.

  Tom Waits

  Dog, Hands, Play

• I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick from the 1700s, that's dog food from the turn of the century, that's a hat from World War II. I'm interested in the minutiae of things. Oddities.

  Tom Waits

  Dog, War, Oddities

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2006.

• The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone

  Tom Waits

  Dog, Bones, Beats

  Song: Lowside of the Road, Album: Mule Variations, 1999

• Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains.

  Tom Waits

  Dog, Ohio, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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