Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITSI started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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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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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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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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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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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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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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