I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in 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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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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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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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 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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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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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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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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