There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITSThe big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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 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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I 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.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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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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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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