Tom Waits Quotes

Tom Waits

Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is 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. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including Down By Law and Bram Stoker's Dracula. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart. Read more on Wikipedia...

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  1. I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

    — Tom Waits

    Submitted by Bakeneko over 1 year ago

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  3. Disneyland is Vegas for children.

    — Tom Waits

    Submitted by robotnic over 2 years ago

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  5. The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

    — Tom Waits

    Submitted by robotnic over 2 years ago

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  6. If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.

    — Tom Waits

    Submitted by robotnic over 2 years ago

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  7. Come down off the cross, we can use the wood.

    — Tom Waits

    Submitted by robotnic over 2 years ago

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  9. The piano has been drinking, not me.

    — Tom Waits

    Submitted by robotnic over 2 years ago

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