The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
TOM WAITSYou learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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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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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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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. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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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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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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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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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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