The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
TOM WAITSThe earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
TOM WAITSBreak windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
TOM WAITSYou know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
TOM WAITSCome down off the cross, we could use the wood.
TOM WAITSNew York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
TOM WAITSNot the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
TOM WAITSSing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITSWell you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
TOM WAITSThe folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
TOM WAITSDon’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITSChampagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITSI always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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 WAITSit ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
TOM WAITSIf there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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 WAITS