I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
TOM WAITSI hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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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 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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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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