Quote

I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.

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
Sell
Sells
Type
Asshole
Guy
Rats
Wedding
Ring
Explanation
Rings

More quotes by Tom Waits

Image
I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.
Tom Waits
Image
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.
Tom Waits
Image
slept all night in the cedar grove, i was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin' for the holy grail, but there ain't nothin' sweeter than ridin' the rails
Tom Waits
Image
Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.
Tom Waits
Image
God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!
Tom Waits
Image
I was always laughing in church.
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 know a girl, she been married so many times, she got rice marks all over her face
Tom Waits
Image
I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.
Tom Waits
Image
Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.
Tom Waits
Image
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
Tom Waits
Image
George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
Tom Waits
Image
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars
Tom Waits
Image
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
Tom Waits
Image
But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
Tom Waits
Image
All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things that they use in their work: They call them instruments. A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music.
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
I may be drunk but at least I'm not insane.
Tom Waits
Image
What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.
Tom Waits
Image
For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school you learn by listening to tunes.
Tom Waits