The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
TOM WAITSDon’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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People 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.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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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.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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I 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.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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