Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
TOM WAITSI sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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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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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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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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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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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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They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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