There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITSYou 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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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I was always laughing in church.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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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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I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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