There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITSWhen I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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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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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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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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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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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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It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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