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
Don't plant your days they turn into weeds
It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang.
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."
I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.
Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.
There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.
when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans
Jimmy Stewart said he stopped making movies because he didn't like the way he looked on screen anymore. I'm more the guy who says I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me.
I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train...
Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.
Anton brings the camera. I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being photographed by his longtime photo collaborator Anton Corbijn)
He said, I'm better off without her, until I showed him my tattoo.