Tom Waits Way Quotations

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

The way you do anything is the way you do everything.

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.

Jimmy Stewart said he stopped making movies because he didn't like the way he looked on screen anymore. I'm more the guy who says I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me.

but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.

You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.