Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
TOM WAITSOh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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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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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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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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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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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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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 dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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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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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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