There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITSNever trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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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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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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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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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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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.
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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 don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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