I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITSSongs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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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’re innocent when you dream.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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I was always laughing in church.
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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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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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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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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 always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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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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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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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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