I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
TOM WAITSI’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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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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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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I’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.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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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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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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