You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITSI sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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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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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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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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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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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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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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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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