Quote

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

Tom Waits

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Pomona
California
Thomas Alan Waits
Cept
Alcohol
Drinking
Drink
Problem

More quotes by Tom Waits

Image
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
Tom Waits
Image
That for me is more important than anything when you're in the studio - to have somebody you can trust and who knows you, knows who you are and doesn't let you get away with anything.
Tom Waits
Image
You're my North Star when I'm lost and feeling blue.
Tom Waits
Image
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
Tom Waits
Image
the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by
Tom Waits
Image
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
Tom Waits
Image
The Universe is making music all the time.
Tom Waits
Image
Chevrolet was puzzled when they discovered that their sales for the Chevy Nova were off the charts everywhere but in Latin America. They finally realized that Nova in Spanish translates to no go. Not the best name for a car... anywhere no va.
Tom Waits
Image
If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.
Tom Waits
Image
When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.
Tom Waits
Image
The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by.
Tom Waits
Image
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
Tom Waits
Image
I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.
Tom Waits
Image
The Music was like Electric Sugar
Tom Waits
Image
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.
Tom Waits
Image
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
Tom Waits
Image
In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think a lot has been done to chronicle the relations between American history and where black music fits in.
Tom Waits
Image
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
Tom Waits
Image
She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you.
Tom Waits
Image
If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.
Tom Waits