Inspirational Quotes by Tom Waits

Words are music, really.

— Tom Waits

Got 27 children I never see.

— Tom Waits

Don't plant your days they turn into weeds

— Tom Waits

I did my time in the jail of your arms

— Tom Waits

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.

— Tom Waits

You're innocent when you dream.

— Tom Waits

Misery is the River of the World

— Tom Waits

We have a deficit of wonder right now.

— Tom Waits

I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.

— Tom Waits

it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones

— Tom Waits

All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes

— Tom Waits

but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.

— Tom Waits

You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.

— Tom Waits

Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station.

— Tom Waits

There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.

— Tom Waits

It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang.

— Tom Waits

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

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an…

— Tom Waits

I really like your playing

— Tom Waits

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

— Tom Waits

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

— Tom Waits

Disneyland is Vegas for children.

— Tom Waits

It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.

— Tom Waits

The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.

— Tom Waits

If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.

— Tom Waits

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

— Tom Waits

I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.

— Tom Waits

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

— Tom Waits

I'm not one of those people the tabloids chase around.

— Tom Waits

He said, I'm better off without her, until I showed him my tattoo.

— Tom Waits

The way you do anything is the way you do everything.

— Tom Waits

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together.

— Tom Waits

She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her.

— Tom Waits

With families and music, you're usually looking for something that can make you unique.

— Tom Waits

I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch

— Tom Waits

“There ain't no devil, just God when he's drunk.”

— Tom Waits

We are buried beneath the weight of information...

— Tom Waits

...and I'm standing on the corner of Fifth and Vermouth.

— Tom Waits