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.
TOM WAITSThe dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
More Tom Waits Quotes
-
-
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
TOM WAITS -
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITS -
I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
TOM WAITS -
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITS -
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
TOM WAITS -
When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
TOM WAITS -
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
TOM WAITS -
The Universe is making music all the time.
TOM WAITS -
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.
TOM WAITS -
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.
TOM WAITS -
I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
TOM WAITS -
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITS -
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
TOM WAITS -
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
TOM WAITS -
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
TOM WAITS