Tom Waits Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Tom Waits

Tom Waits Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Tom Waits quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

The way you do anything is the way you do everything. — Tom Waits

When your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans — Tom Waits

There ain't no such thing as the devil that's just god when he's drunk. — Tom Waits

Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church. — Tom Waits

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess. — Tom Waits

I did my time in the jail of your arms — Tom Waits

Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier — Tom Waits

It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal. — Tom Waits

The folks who know the truth aren't talking ... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up! — Tom Waits

The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy ... and be nourished by. — Tom Waits

I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in. — Tom Waits

You choke my days, I'll choke yours. — Tom Waits

I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm. — Tom Waits

I 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 Waits

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go. — Tom Waits

When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane. — Tom Waits

Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping? — Tom Waits

It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component. — Tom Waits

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. — Tom Waits

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies. — Tom Waits

Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station. — Tom Waits

I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people. — Oscar Isaac

Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes? — Tom Waits

Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at. — Tom Waits

Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On — Tom Waits

You're innocent when you dream. — Tom Waits

I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise. — Tom Waits

All my friends are dead, or else they're not feeling too good. — Tom Waits

If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too. — Tom Waits

I don't like listening to records a lot after they're done. There's just no real nourishment there for me. — Tom Waits

Singing is just doing interesting things to the air. Elongating it and twisting it into shapes. — Tom Waits

using parking meters as walking sticks. — Tom Waits

There ain't no devil, just God when he's drunk. — Tom Waits

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. — Tom Waits

I worry about a lot of things, but I don't worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven. — Tom Waits

When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits. — Max Greenfield

I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own. — Tom Waits

Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning. — Tom Waits

I just don't like the word 'fun'
it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts ... it rubs me up the wrong way. — Tom Waits

Disneyland is Vegas for children. — Tom Waits

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick." — Tom Waits

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music. — Tom Waits

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her. — Tom Waits

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post. — Tom Waits

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight
A sly grin and a bowl full of stars — Tom Waits

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved. — Tom Waits

I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas. — Tom Waits

I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that. — Tom Waits

Words are music, really. — Tom Waits

The beginning of it starts at the end — Tom Waits

We are all just monkeys with money and guns. — Tom Waits

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead. — Tom Waits

I don't know what the 'big time' is. — Tom Waits

There is no such thing as nonfiction. — Tom Waits

What else don't women like besides the Three Stooges? Tom Waits. Being hurt physically or emotionally. — Julie Klausner

They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing. — Tom Waits

Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June. — Tom Waits

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away. — Tom Waits

She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet. — Tom Waits

The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone — Tom Waits

Cross my wooden leg, swear on my glass eye. — Tom Waits

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain. — Tom Waits

I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand. — Tom Waits

Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead — Tom Waits

I was always laughing in church. — Tom Waits

There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk. — Tom Waits

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart,
yeah,I drunk me a river since you
tore me apart — Tom Waits

You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops. — Tom Waits

I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart. — Rod Stewart

There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano. — Tom Waits

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. — Tom Waits

And I'm standing on the corner of Fifth and Vermouth. — Tom Waits

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. — Tom Waits

The Music was like Electric Sugar — Tom Waits

Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you. — Tom Waits

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. — Tom Waits

I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M. — Tom Waits

There ain't no devil, it's just God when he's drunk. — Tom Waits

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. — Tom Waits

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together. — Tom Waits

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop. — Tom Waits

And when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades — Tom Waits

There's no prayer like desire. — Tom Waits

All that you've loved is all you own — Tom Waits

What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator. — Steve Vai

Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good. — Ken Bruen

I'm reliable sources, I'll tell ya anything you want me to know. — Tom Waits

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. — Tom Waits

There's not much difference between what I appear to be on stage and what I am. I think people like that, that I'm not trying to pull a caper. — Tom Waits

I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand — Tom Waits

Don't plant your days they turn into weeds — Tom Waits

Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town — Tom Waits

i never told the truth so i can never tell a lie... — Tom Waits

Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye. — Tom Waits

And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you ... — Tom Waits

The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame. — Tom Waits

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits. — Florence Welch

The 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 Waits

There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's ... girls without skin. — Tom Waits

Time is just memory
Mixed in with Desire. — Tom Waits