450 Quotes by Tom Waits

It's hard to win when you always lose.

Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.

using parking meters as walking sticks.

The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.

Don't plant your days they turn into weeds

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair

It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.

People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.