Tom Waits frasi celebri
“Frank governa la musica con Elmore James e Stravinskij alla sua destra.”
citato in Frank Zappa. For president!, a cura di Michele Pizzi, Arcana edizioni srl, Roma, 2011
Tom Waits: Frasi in inglese
“I don't have a drinking problem ‘cept when I can't get a drink.”
"Bad Liver and a Broken Heart", Small Change (1976).
“I'm so goddamn horny, the crack of dawn better be careful around me!”
Nighthawks at the Diner (1975).
“Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk.”
"Heartattack and Vine", Heartattack and Vine (1980).
Interviewed by J. T. LeRoy, "Strange Innocence," Vanity Fair, July 2001
“It's kind of like borrowing the same ten bucks from somebody over and over again.”
Interviewed on Fresh Air, 2002-05-21 http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=5-21-2002. <br class="br">Contesto: I collaborate with my wife on the songs, and every aspect of it, really— composing, and arranging, and recording, all that business. We have a rhythm and a way of working it. It's kind of like borrowing the same ten bucks from somebody over and over again. But when you live together, it makes it a lot easier, the pay back.
“The piano has been drinking, not me.”
"The Piano Has Been Drinking", Small Change (1976).
