I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITSAnd the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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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. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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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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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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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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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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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 was always laughing in church.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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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 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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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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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 like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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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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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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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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