Tom Waits Quotes about Drinking

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I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

Tom Waits

Drinking, Beer, Bottles

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

Tom Waits

Drinking, Alcohol, Problem

Song: Bad Liver And A Broken Heart, Album: Small Change

If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them up and finding different ways of saying the same thing... I get into a spell, and it all comes easy. I don't labor over it. I go inside the song, I think you make yourself an antenna for songs, and songs want to be around you. And then they bring other songs along, and then they're all sitting around, and they're drinkin' your beer, and they're sleeping on the floor. And they are using the phone, they're rude, thankless little f---ers.

Tom Waits

Song, Drinking, Sleep

"Waits In Wonderland". Image Magazine Interview with Rip Rense, December 13, 1992.