The piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITSThe way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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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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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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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing 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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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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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’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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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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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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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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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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