The piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITSAll that you’ve loved is all you own.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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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 can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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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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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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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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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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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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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 put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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