450 Quotes by Tom Waits

There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.

The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

The Universe is making music all the time.

The studio is torn down, all the people who played on it are dead, the instruments have been sold off. But you are listening to a moment that happened in time sixty years ago and you are hearing it just as sharp as when it was made. That remains an amazing thing to me.

And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you...

I don’t know what ‘the big time’ is really, except that it’s probably some terrible place you can’t get out of, you know… or you fall from it and break all your bones, or you try to go further and burn up.

a foreign affair juxtaposed with a statesideand domestically approved romantic fancy is mysteriously attractive due to circumstances knowing it will only be parlayed into a memory

You must have brought the bad weather with youThe sky's the color of leadAll you've left me is a featherOn an unmade bed

I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an interesting one, it’s amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something.