I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
TOM WAITSWhen I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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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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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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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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For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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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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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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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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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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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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The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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