There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITSI’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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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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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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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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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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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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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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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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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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