All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSAll that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSAll the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITSWhen you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
TOM WAITSDon’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
TOM WAITSChampagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITSYou’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
TOM WAITSI’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.
TOM WAITSDon’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
TOM WAITSDid the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
TOM WAITSOh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
TOM WAITSWell, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
TOM WAITSSlept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
TOM WAITSI’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITSI do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
TOM WAITSI 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.
TOM WAITSI sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
TOM WAITS