We have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITSDon’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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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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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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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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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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