6 Tom Waits Quotes on Music

Tom Waits quotes on music

8. The piano has been drinking, not me.

25. I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

31. 'When he performs, it sounds as if the world has stopped at 2 A.M.' - Dinah Shore

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

33. '...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' --Unknown critic when commenting on his voice

36. 'It's like he swallowed a roll of sandpaper' - Anon boy 2008