The beginning of it starts at the end.
TOM WAITSThe beginning of it starts at the end.
TOM WAITSSongs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITSBut 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.
TOM WAITSWe are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
TOM WAITSI don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
TOM WAITSPeople get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
TOM WAITSI made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
TOM WAITSBill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
TOM WAITSWhen your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
TOM WAITSI’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
TOM WAITSWell I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
TOM WAITSDon’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
TOM WAITSA gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
TOM WAITSShe’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
TOM WAITSYou can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITSMost people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
TOM WAITS