450 Quotes by Tom Waits

Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.

I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.

I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.

I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken Catastrophe and Eggs Overwhelming and a tall, cool Janitor-in-a-Drum. I like to walk out of a restaurant with enough gas to open a Mobil station.

There's not much difference between what I appear to be on stage and what I am. I think people like that, that I'm not trying to pull a caper.

Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.

but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by