Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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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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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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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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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’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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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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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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