Tom Waits Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Children, Kids

• Got 27 children I never see.

  Tom Waits

  Children, Social Taboos, Taboo

• bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.

  Tom Waits

  Children, Toes, Bunch

• Disneyland is Vegas for children.

  Tom Waits

  Children, Vegas, Disneyland

  Playboy 20 Questions, March 1988.

• I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Children, Men

  "Tom Waits gives the devil his due". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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