Quotes by : Tom Waits

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and....

And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you...

My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight....

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man....

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you....

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're....

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.

The Universe is making music all the time.

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket.....

New York, of course, is to be in endless surreal situations where a fifty-thousand dollar, gun-metal....