All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSI’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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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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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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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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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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