black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

Tom Waits

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
TOM WAITS

Busy Car Dog Move Yourself
The piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITS

Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
TOM WAITS

Angel Devil Myself
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
TOM WAITS

Bowl Moon Myself Stars
The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
TOM WAITS

Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
TOM WAITS

Forest Herself Live
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.
TOM WAITS

Career Family Night Trick Yourself
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
TOM WAITS

Guy Ring Sell Type
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITS

Day Plant Yourself
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITS

Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
TOM WAITS

Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
TOM WAITS

Dumb Intelligence Mental
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
TOM WAITS

Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITS

Imagination Right Wonder
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
TOM WAITS

Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
TOM WAITS

Head Rain

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tom Waits Quotes