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
Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.
He said, I'm better off without her, until I showed him my tattoo.
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.
Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.
I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand.
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
I really like your playing
Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station.
She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet.
I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise.
There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine.
You're my North Star when I'm lost and feeling blue.
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
I may be drunk but at least I'm not insane.