I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITSOh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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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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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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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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