I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
TOM WAITSTime is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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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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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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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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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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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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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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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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