You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITSYou can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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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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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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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.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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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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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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