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.
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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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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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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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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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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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