There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
TOM WAITSThere’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
TOM WAITSI was always laughing in church.
TOM WAITSWhen your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
TOM WAITSI put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
TOM WAITSIf there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
TOM WAITSI guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
TOM WAITSI always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
TOM WAITSI admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
TOM WAITSThe beginning of it starts at the end.
TOM WAITSI did my time in the jail of your arms.
TOM WAITSI’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
TOM WAITSSing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
TOM WAITSWe are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
TOM WAITSWell I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
TOM WAITSDon’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
TOM WAITSI don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
TOM WAITS