I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
TOM WAITSI 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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