We have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITSMy 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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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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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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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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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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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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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 like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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