I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
TOM WAITSDon’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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I was always laughing in church.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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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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