450 Quotes by Tom Waits

There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.

I’m reliable sources, I’ll tell ya anything you want me to know.

I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

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

There’s truths there that spiral out of what appears to be just a word game. That’s what I find mystifying about the meanings of things: they kind of unscrew themselves from the practical words.

The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.

If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.

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