You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
TOM WAITSOn my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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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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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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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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