Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Thomas Alan Waitsis an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding like "it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth7 December 1949
CityPomona, CA
CountryUnited States of America
slept all night in the cedar grove, i was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin' for the holy grail, but there ain't nothin' sweeter than ridin' the rails
The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart
As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.
The Music was like Electric Sugar
Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
Misery is the River of the World
The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by.
It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.
I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier
Got 27 children I never see.
Jesus Christ, this godamn rain, will someone put me on a train.