On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
TOM WAITSYou learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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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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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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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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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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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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