450 Quotes by Tom Waits

My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.

I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.

You just write and you don’t try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.

I did my time in the jail of your arms.

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

I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train...

Folks who work here are professors. Don’t replace all the knowers with guessors keep’em open they’re the ears of the town.