Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
TOM WAITSDon’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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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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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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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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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Slept 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.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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When 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.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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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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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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