When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
TOM WAITSWhen your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
TOM WAITSYou have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
TOM WAITSMostly 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.
TOM WAITSI 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.
TOM WAITSBut 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.
TOM WAITSYou’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
TOM WAITSI’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITSDon’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.
TOM WAITSWe are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
TOM WAITSThe big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
TOM WAITSChampagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITSSing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITSIf there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
TOM WAITSYou can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITSThe piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITSAll the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITS