Tom Waits Quotes (16 Quotes)

There was thunder There was lightning Then the stars went out And the moon fell from the sky.

I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find...

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

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

I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.

and I have lawyers over there investigating my options.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

It's hard to win when you always lose.

had no interest in being associated with any advertisement campaigns whatsoever.

Belly of a Drunken Piano.

Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor, ... While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers.

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

The piano has been drinking, not me.

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

I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.