You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITSI 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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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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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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The Universe is making music all the time.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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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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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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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 put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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