You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
TOM WAITSThe 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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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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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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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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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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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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