450 Quotes by Tom Waits

I’ve never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I’ve got all three, and it’s never helped me.

People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.

Popular music is like a big party, and it’s a thrill sneaking in rather than being invited. Every once in a while, a guy with his shirt on inside out, wearing lipstick and a pillbox hat gets a chance to speak.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

I may be drunk but at least I'm not insane.

Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?

Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they're carrying is you.

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.