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
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars
Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs
She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.