Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITSSing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITSI’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
TOM WAITSPeople 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 WAITSI have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
TOM WAITSThe beginning of it starts at the end.
TOM WAITSI’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
TOM WAITSNot the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
TOM WAITSThere’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITSI 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.
TOM WAITSAnd the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
TOM WAITSTheir memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
TOM WAITSI’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
TOM WAITSI 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 WAITSI do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
TOM WAITSThe earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
TOM WAITSNew York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
TOM WAITS