it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
TOM WAITSThe dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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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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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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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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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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Mostly 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.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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