I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm. Tom Waits More Quotes by Tom Waits More Quotes From Tom Waits We are all just monkeys with money and guns. Tom Waits monkeys gun They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing. Tom Waits bad-things difficult Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing Tom Waits air song interesting I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately. Tom Waits slumps riding I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch Tom Waits scotch half blood Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. Tom Waits friends pain real The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini. Tom Waits sight islands two Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties. Tom Waits showing-up like-you party Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone. Tom Waits dog play hands I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites. Tom Waits couple song thinking It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang. Tom Waits baby love It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal. Tom Waits suitcases journey travel When you're writing‚ you're conjuring. It's a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room. Tom Waits brave writing needs All that you've loved is all you own Tom Waits It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die. Tom Waits horse dog men But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music. Tom Waits jukebox guy might I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue. Tom Waits stigma poet adventure Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. Tom Waits Well you wave your hand and they scatter like crows Tom Waits lonely song baby using parking meters as walking sticks. Tom Waits parking-meters walking-sticks sticks
