On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
TOM WAITSIf I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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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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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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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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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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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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