If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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I 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.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Their 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.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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But 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.
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