I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
TOM WAITSThe Universe is making music all the time.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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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 ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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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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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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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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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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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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