, 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.
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk.
I'm so goddamn horny, the crack of dawn better be careful around me!
She called me Hen Fap Thomas, said that I was something that she needed to have!
Your veal cutlet gets up off the plate, It walks down to end of the counter and beat the shit out of my cup of coffee. I guess the coffee just wasn't strong enough to defend itself.
I don't have a drinking problem ‘cept when I can't get a drink.
And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget that history puts a saint in every dream.
The piano has been drinking, not me.
If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.
What's he building in there? We have a right to know.
Come down off the cross, we can use the wood.