I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITSAll the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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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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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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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.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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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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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 have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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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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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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