Tom Waits Quotes

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

I'm an interpreter of music.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Music is only love looking for words.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

I usually think in terms of music.

Music is the only thing that I trust.

Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of a performance liberty, you're making a compositional choice. I don't know a serious performer who hasn't made compositional decisions, who hasn't engaged in the art of composition.

The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.

Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.

Music creates order out of chaos.

I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

Music is a dialogue.

You have certain expressions when you write music, a lot of different emotions, a lot of different feelings.

I really believe in melody.