A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
TOM WAITSit ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
More Tom Waits Quotes
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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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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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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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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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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