Tom Waits Quotes on Music
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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'When he performs, it sounds as if the world has stopped at 2 A.M.' - Dinah Shore
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'I always wondered how Tom Waits would sing 'Greensleeves'....' --Loreena McKennitt, 'The Visit'
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'...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
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'It's like he swallowed a roll of sandpaper' - Anon boy 2008