Tom Waits Quotes


"I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy."
- Tom Waits
"I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else."
- Tom Waits
(Related: Trying)

"I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out."
- Tom Waits
(Related: Dawn)

"It's hard to win when you always lose."
- Tom Waits
"The big print giveth and the small print taketh away."
- Tom Waits
"The piano has been drinking, not me."
- Tom Waits
(Related: Drinking)

"Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream."
- Tom Waits
(Related: History, Dream, Forget, Memory)

"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk."
- Tom Waits
(Related: God, Devil)

"Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends."
- Tom Waits
(Related: Friends, Pain)