I don't know what the 'big time' is. Tom Waits More Quotes by Tom Waits More Quotes From Tom Waits Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time. Tom Waits kidsartfall And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming. Tom Waits diedearthdream The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable. Tom Waits impactmusicaltree I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas. Tom Waits vegashatekids The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me. Tom Waits life-isfactspeople Don't plant your days they turn into weeds Tom Waits turnsweedplant You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on? Tom Waits angelstrongsleep Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. Tom Waits ohiodogyears There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. Tom Waits cheddarbaby The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change. Tom Waits lightaveragetwo 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 bellsoilfun I put food on the table Tom Waits rooftomorrowtables You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you. Tom Waits kids Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at. Tom Waits wheelskindfall For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too. Tom Waits listeningtryingschool Jimmy Stewart said he stopped making movies because he didn't like the way he looked on screen anymore. I'm more the guy who says I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me. Tom Waits guylooksway 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 wifementhinking I can't listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You're just processing too much, there's no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears. Tom Waits too-muchlongthinking She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you. Tom Waits fearlessartistworld On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick." Tom Waits lifefunnydeath
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