Tom Waits Quotes

My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
Tom Waits (about Mule Variations)

There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do anything during the time when I wrote no songs. I was creative, but in another way. I had ideas for songs and collected the ideas.
Tom Waits

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
Tom Waits

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
Tom Waits

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
Tom Waits

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

The piano has been drinking, not me.
Tom Waits

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