You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
TOM WAITSYou’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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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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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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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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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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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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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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