Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITSChampagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITSI don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
TOM WAITSMost of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITSThere’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
TOM WAITSWriting songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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 WAITSA gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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 WAITSYou can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITSI started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
TOM WAITSThe way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITSGot a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
TOM WAITSThe trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
TOM WAITSI’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
TOM WAITSBreak windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
TOM WAITSOn my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
TOM WAITS