The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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 like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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You’re innocent when you dream.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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