450 Quotes by Tom Waits

I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes.

Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.

It’s a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.

I know a girl, she been married so many times, she got rice marks all over her face.

I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.

I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.

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.

Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain’t nothing sweeter than riding the rail. Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.