Quote #32

'I always wondered how Tom Waits would sing 'Greensleeves'....' --Loreena McKennitt, 'The Visit'

More from Tom Waits

  1. 'When he performs, it sounds as if the world has stopped at 2 A.M.' - Dinah Shore
  2. '...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'…
  3. 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 ca…
  4. '...like a clown crossed with a cherry bomb.' --Anonymous young girl, liner notes to Used Songs: 1973-1980
  5. In response to a heckler at his concert at Toronto's Massey Hall in the late 1980's who complained that he could not hear Waits, he replied…
  6. '...he's really awesome and really horrible' --Anonymous young boy, 2007.
  7. 'I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and sho…
  8. 'It's like he swallowed a roll of sandpaper' - Anon boy 2008

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