We have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITSI’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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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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The Universe is making music all the time.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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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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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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