And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITSI like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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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?
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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.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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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 never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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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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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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