Quote #23

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends

More from Tom Waits

  1. The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone
  2. My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. 'Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?' they ask…
  3. (When asked for advice for younger musicians) 'Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little po…
  4. I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
  5. 'Disneyland is Vegas for children.'
  6. 'I don't have fun. Actually, I had fun once. In 1962. I drank a whole bottle of Robitussin cough medicine and went in the back of a 1961 po…
  7. 'Our Father, who art in Krebari, hallowed be thy glass. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in the lounges. Give us this …
  8. 'I like to walk out of a diner with enough gas to open a Mobil station.'

All Tom Waits quotes