450 Quotes by Tom Waits

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own...

I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is a world of adventure, a new galaxy. I'm big on adventure. But I don't assume that just because the word cyber is being used as a prefix, doesn't give it anymore value or credence. Cyber relationships have the illusion of intimacy, sometimes with the absence of intimacy. Is it better to have a conversation in a café or on the telephone?

Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station.

I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.

Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods.

She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet.

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.