Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
TOM WAITSI’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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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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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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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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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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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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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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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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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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