450 Quotes by Tom Waits

I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way.

There’s a place on my arm where I’ve written her name next to mine.

All my friends are dead, or else they’re not feeling too good.

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

Everything you can think of is true.

I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.

Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.

Fishin’ for a good time starts with throwin’ in your line.

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.