Author of quotes: Tom Waits

We're buried in the flood of information that confused with real knowledge. The number is accepted for the abundance and wealth for happiness.

I like beautiful melodies telling terrible things about.

Some of the stories are boggling my brain. I heard about a Japanese freighter that was sunk in Tokyo Bay during world war II. For a long time he lay at the bottom with a huge hole in the hull, and a giant team of engineers have wrestled with how to raise it to the surface. And then one of them said, this is elementary. And he said that as a child loved the cartoon about Donald duck, and there was also a ship with a hole in the side lying on the bottom of the sea. But Donald Duck scored the hold of this ship balls of ping-pong, and the ship surfaced. The only thing that bothered the guy - where in Tokyo to get twenty million balls for ping-pong. Everyone began to laugh at him, but someone from the leadership group said, why not try? And they scored the hold of this ship with the balls, and the ship surfaced. This story, I think, is the best reminder that we always need to stay in my opinion, like it or treated around.

My wife calls me a donkey. One day she said, "I didn't marry a man and the donkey". And I thought, "Good name for an album."

The weirdest record in my collection is the album "the Best of Marcel Marceau", released in the seventies one of the Los Angeles office. There was forty minutes of silence, and then applause. It sold excellently, and, of course, I myself immediately bought. I like to put it, when guests come over, and I was insanely annoyed when someone starts talking while you are listening.

A gentleman is a man who knows how to play the accordion, but never does.

Leave the honours to the senators and scientists. And on my tombstone write: "but I Tell you: I'm sick."

If the shit even was worth something, poor people would be banned to have ass.

When my children started asking me about why I'm not like the others and why don't I have a normal job, I decided to tell them a story. I told them, "In one forest grew crooked tree and the normal, straight tree. And every day is a direct tree said curve: look at me, I'm tall, powerful, direct, correct, fine; but you're crooked and bent over so that nobody even wants to look at you. So they grew in woods nearby, until one day in the woods came the lumberjacks. They looked straight at the tree and looked at wryly, and then said, let's cut down that tree straight and those straight trees, and all the curves will leave to grow. And they chopped all the straight and tall trees, moved them on the boards, toothpicks and toilet paper. And the crooked tree is still in the forest - is becoming every day stronger and more strange."

It is always better to burn than rot.

Jim Jarmusch once said to me: "Fast, cheap, quality... pick two." If something is fast and cheap, then it is, by definition, cannot be qualitative. If something cheap and quality, it will not be quick. But if something fast and quality, it will not be cheap. So: "Fast, cheap, quality... pick two (words) that you really need".

Do you know how many tears fit into a teaspoon? 127. I calculated, when he was in depression.
I was curious and I thought it was a sort of art project.
I wanted to move somewhere and not just cry. So I started to cry in the spoon and count the drops. 127.
Make sure to record a memory. 127.

I've recently went with her throat to the doctor, he told me that if I keep doing that you'll end up like Frank Sinatra. "What, rich and famous?", - I asked.

To talk about what you're doing, is always difficult. It is as if a blind man trying to describe an elephant. A large part still have to invent.