It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

Tom Waits


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And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget that history puts a saint in every dream.

Tom Waits


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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

Tom Waits

Tags: music power-of-music



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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
Tom Waits (to me, about 1986 or so)

Tom Waits


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T’ain’t no sin to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones.

Tom Waits


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

Tom Waits

Tags: misattributed spoonerism



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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.

Tom Waits


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The beginning of it starts at the end

Tom Waits


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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.
We are monkeys with money and guns.

Tom Waits


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slept all night in the cedar grove,
i was born to ramble, born to rove,
some men are searchin' for the holy grail,
but there ain't nothin' sweeter
than ridin' the rails

Tom Waits


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