You’re innocent when you dream.
TOM WAITSYou’re innocent when you dream.
TOM WAITSAll the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITSI can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
TOM WAITSLiving 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.
TOM WAITSThe big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITSThere’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
TOM WAITSDon’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITSI’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
TOM WAITSYou can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITSYou got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
TOM WAITSMostly 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.
TOM WAITSI like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
TOM WAITSYou have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
TOM WAITSWe are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
TOM WAITSI’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
TOM WAITSDon’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
TOM WAITS