450 Quotes by Tom Waits

Now its raining its pouring the old man is snoring now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in the street all my dreams are made of chrome I have no way to get back home I’d rather die before I wake like Marilyn Monroe and throw my dreams out in the street and the rain make ‘em grow

I was always laughing in church.

I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.

All that you've loved is all you own

We are all just monkeys with money and guns.

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

The piano has been drinking, not me.

He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle.

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.