Tom Waits Quotes

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

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

I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words tha...

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

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlightA sly grin and a bowl full of stars

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool ...

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after y...

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I ...

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

You must have brought the bad weather with youThe sky's the color of leadAll you've left me is a fea...

The Universe is making music all the time.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a soc...

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Ever...

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, ...

And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you...

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind m...

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

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and...

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is...

He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet...

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you...

My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a str...

New York, of course, is to be in endless surreal situations where a fifty-thousand dollar, gun-metal...

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.

a foreign affair juxtaposed with a statesideand domestically approved romantic fancy is mysteriously...

The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.