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
The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone
I did my time in the jail of your arms
There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin.
My friends think I'm ugly, I gotta masculine face.
I'm reliable sources, I'll tell ya anything you want me to know.
I know a girl, she been married so many times, she got rice marks all over her face
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.
You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.
I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On