You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITSThe dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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 made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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I 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.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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