If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
TOM WAITSMy 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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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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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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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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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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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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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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