Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
TOM WAITSWell I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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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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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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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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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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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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