More From Tom Waits
- "Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can’t think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder."
- "My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane."
- "But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music."
More In Attitude
- "Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time."― Steven Biko
- "If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial."― Allan Carr
- "When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody."― John McGahern