Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
TOM WAITSWe are all just monkeys with money and guns.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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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 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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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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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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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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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 can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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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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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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