Tom Waits Quotes, Thoughts and Image

There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.

I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

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

If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.

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

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

The way you do anything is the way you do everything.

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

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

I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.

Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.

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

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

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.

If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.

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

All that you've loved is all you own

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

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.

The beginning of it starts at the end

She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her.

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.

I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.

Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

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

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