Tom Waits Quotes

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me.

When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes in store. In the summers, I'd backpack through Europe, follow the Grateful Dead. I had a car and a tent and traveled around the Great Lakes and out West. Jack Kerouac was my guiding light, his 'On the Road' a sacred text.

Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so

I have friends who have a normal family, kids and a dog, and I think I would blow my brains out. It's fine for them. But I'm such a free spirit, I feel more alive when I've got somewhere to go.

He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.

There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.

For some of us, the Gypsy years can go on forever ... That isn't such a bad thing. When all is said and done, they're a lot of fun. The truth is, I liked being a Gypsy. It's who I was. And it's still a lot of who I am. Gypsy, it's a good word.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

I am very little of a traveler.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.

I travel as much as I do. It isn't the life I expected. I don't know what dust of pollen will come back with me from these travels.But I must trust that I will not treat frivolously the glimpses I've been given into other places and others' lives.

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

I like to drive and I like to travel. When I drive on the open road, it's like sometimes the car turns into a pen and the road is a piece of paper.