You’re innocent when you dream.
TOM WAITSDon’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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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.
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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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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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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.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I was always laughing in church.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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