Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITSI’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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Mostly 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.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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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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Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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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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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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