I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
TOM WAITSIf you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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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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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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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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