Quotes About Love Tom Waits

#1. I love Tom [Waits] for the same reason I love Leonard Cohen, which is that they are both one-offs, templates; they both seemed old, or at least dressed old when they were young; both kind of lived their careers backwards.

Sylvie Simmons

#2. No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.

Minor White

#3. Patience is a fruit that only grows under trials.

Joyce Meyer

#4. Ours was a hard love. We'd fallen hard into it, and we'd fought hard to keep it. Our kind of love didn't ask nicely. It took. It ravaged. It consumed the heart whole and asked questions later. The rewards were soul-deep and all-consuming, sweeping through like a wildfire.

Meredith Wild

#5. Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.

Ben Quayle

#6. 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

#7. Always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

Mortimer J. Adler

#8. It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang.

Tom Waits

#9. I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

Fran Drescher

#10. What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

Tom Waits

#11. You must have brought the bad weather with you
The sky's the color of lead
All you've left me is a feather
On an unmade bed

Tom Waits

#12. The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.

Mandy Patinkin

#13. And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you ...

Tom Waits

#14. I've been bisexual for as long as I can remember. I remember being made fun of in junior high for that. It was something that was shameful, and it really shouldn't be.

Crystal Bowersox

#15. In my bachelor days, I had a small upright piano in my kitchen. It cost £10 from eBay plus £70 delivery. It was because I'd seen an old photo of Tom Waits - with dirty dishes, empty bottles, a hot plate, a coffee machine and a piano strewn with lyric sheets - and fallen in love with it.

Jamie Cullum

#16. You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

Tom Waits

#17. Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond ...

Italo Calvino

#18. Bill Campbell: "It's not about the money."
Ben Horowitz: "What's it about, Bill?"
Bill: "It's about the FUCKING money.

Ben Horowitz

#19. I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings.

Steven Conrad

#20. Abandon all nations, the planet drifts to random insect doom.

William S. Burroughs

#21. I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.

Imelda May