Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITSOn my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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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’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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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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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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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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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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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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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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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 like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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