black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.

Tom Waits

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS

Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
TOM WAITS

Air Interest Song
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
TOM WAITS

Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
TOM WAITS

Brave Captain Devil Light Wicket Yourself
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.
TOM WAITS

Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
TOM WAITS

Freedom Myself Science
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
TOM WAITS

Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Talk Truth
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITS

Day Plant Yourself
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.
TOM WAITS

Animal Goodness Man Marriage Myself Thinking Wife
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
TOM WAITS

Bad Difficult Myself Work
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
TOM WAITS

Evening Myself Train
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
TOM WAITS

Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
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.
TOM WAITS

People Scare Success Yourself
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.
TOM WAITS

Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself

They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tom Waits Quotes