Tom Waits Thomas Alan Waits is an American

Tom Waits Thomas Alan Waits 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 more. .

“ Tom Waits: And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget that history puts a saint in every dream. #Dreams

“ Tom Waits: What's he building in there? We have a right to know. #Architecture

“ Tom Waits: If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home. #Home

“ Tom Waits: "I don't have fun. Actually, I had fun once. In 1962. I drank a whole bottle of Robitussin cough medicine and went in the back of a 1961 powder-blue Lincoln Continental to a James Brown concert with some Mexican friends of mine. I haven't had fun since. It's not a word I like. It's like Volkswagens or bell -bottoms, or patchouli oil or bean sprouts. It rubs me up the wrong way. I might go out and have an educational and entertaining evening, but I don't have fun. " #Friends and Friendship

“ Tom Waits: The piano has been drinking, not me. #Alcohol and Alcoholism

“ Tom Waits: Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk. #Alcohol and Alcoholism

“ Tom Waits: And sometime around 2 AM you end up taking advantage of yourself. Ain't no way around that. Making a scene with a magazine. #Media

“ Tom Waits: My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else? " they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me. . . I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you. . . you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you. " And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest. " So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day. #Age and Aging

“ Tom Waits: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. " #Alcohol and Alcoholism

“ Tom Waits: And someone will head south 'til this whole thing cools off. #Procrastination

“ Tom Waits: "When he performs, it sounds as if the world has stopped at 2 A. M. " - Dinah Shore #Death and Dying

“ Tom Waits: I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. #Beauty

“ Tom Waits: (When asked for advice for younger musicians) "Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold. " #Advice

“ Tom Waits: The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone #Dogs

“ Tom Waits: Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends #Friends and Friendship

“ Tom Waits: Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail. #Critics and Criticism

“ Tom Waits: Come down off the cross, we can use the wood. #Opportunity

“ Tom Waits: I don't have a drinking problem ‘cept when I can't get a drink. #Alcohol and Alcoholism

“ Tom Waits: The large print giveth and the small print taketh away. #Giving

“ Tom Waits: Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad — ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor. #Friends and Friendship

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