Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
TOM WAITSWhen your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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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 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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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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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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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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