Tom Waits quotes

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
- Tom Waits

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

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

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

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

It ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
- Tom Waits

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
- Tom Waits

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

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

And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming...
- 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

Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
- Tom Waits

The earth is not my home, I'm just passing by.
- 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 hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
- Tom Waits

The piano has been drinking, not me.
- Tom Waits

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

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

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

It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
- Tom Waits

You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
- Tom Waits