There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITSIf there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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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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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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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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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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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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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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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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