New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
TOM WAITSI’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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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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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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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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