She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
TOM WAITSI don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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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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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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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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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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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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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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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I was always laughing in church.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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