Frases célebres de Tom Waits
Fuente: Montadon, Mac. Tom Waits: Conversaciones, entrevistas y opiniones. Traductor Ignacio Juliá. Editorial Global Rhythm Press, S.L. ISBN 9788493541293. p. 31.
Fuente: Carter, Benny; Greenberg, Peter S. Agridulce. Entrevista publicada en Newsweek el 14 de junio de 1976.
“No tengo un problema con la bebida excepto cuando no puedo tomar una copa.”
Original: «I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink».
Fuente: Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters. Editor Paul Maher. Editorial Chicago Review Press, 2011. ISBN 9781569769270. p. 153. https://books.google.es/books?id=w-EIUI1xU8cC&pg=PA153&dq=I+don%27t+have+a+drinking+problem+%27Cept+when+I+can%27t+get+a+drink.+Tom+Waits&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjc4KLgkPPgAhWE5OAKHev1CMcQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=I%20don't%20have%20a%20drinking%20problem%20'Cept%20when%20I%20can't%20get%20a%20drink.%20Tom%20Waits&f=false
Fuente: Parte de la letra de la canción Bad Liver and a Broken Heart.
“No sabes que no hay un demonio, solo hay dios cuando está borracho.”
Original: « Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk».
Fuente: The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983. Tom Waits. Editorial HarperCollins, 2007. ISBN 9780061458002. Página 129.
Fuente: Montadon, Mac. Tom Waits: Conversaciones, entrevistas y opiniones. Traductor Ignacio Juliá. Editorial Global Rhythm Press, S.L. ISBN 9788493541293. p. 74.
Fuente: Black, Johnny. Waits y las relaciones dobles. Publicado en London Trax el 18 de marzo de 1981.
“Me gustan las melodías hermosas que me dicen cosas terribles.”
Origial: «I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things».
Fuente: MUSIC: Quotes Collection: From Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bono, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Prince And Many More!. Autor y editor Sapiens Hub, 2018. ISBN 9783965448223. https://books.google.es/books?id=VBF5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT1&dq=3965448226,+9783965448223&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwju_9fpmfHgAhXZAGMBHebODtMQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=I%20like%20beautiful%20melodies%20telling%20me%20terrible%20things&f=false
Tom Waits Frases y Citas
Fuente: Montadon, Mac. Tom Waits: Conversaciones, entrevistas y opiniones. Traductor Ignacio Juliá. Editorial Global Rhythm Press, S.L. ISBN 9788493541293. p. 32.
Fuente: Carter, Benny; Greenberg, Peter S. Agridulce. Entrevista publicada en Newsweek el 14 de junio de 1976.
“Llevo un águila tatuada en el pecho. Solo que en este cuerpo parece un petirrojo.”
Fuente: Montadon, Mac. Tom Waits: Conversaciones, entrevistas y opiniones. Traductor Ignacio Juliá. Editorial Global Rhythm Press, S.L. ISBN 9788493541293. p. 27.
Fuente: Peterson, Clark. La viscosidad que llegó del frío. Entrevista publicada en Creem en marzo de 1978.
Original: «We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns».
Fuente: Internet Research Methods. Autores Claire Hewson, Carl Vogel, Dianna Laurent. 2ª edición. Editorial SAGE, 2015. ISBN 9781473944046. https://books.google.es/books?id=dqliCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT241&dq=9781473944046&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiC7tveo_HgAhWrAWMBHes6AYQQ6AEIKDAA#v=snippet&q=We%20are%20buried%20beneath%20the%20weight%20of%20information%2C%20which%20is%20being%20confused%20with%20knowledge&f=false
Original: «The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering».
Fuente: This Thing We Call Literature. Autor Arthur Krystal. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780190272371. p. 80. https://books.google.es/books?id=O4tyCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA80&dq=The+world+is+a+hellish+place,+and+bad+writing+is+destroying+the+quality+of+our+suffering.&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI9NLy0vLgAhUPD2MBHWGDA9UQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20world%20is%20a%20hellish%20place%2C%20and%20bad%20writing%20is%20destroying%20the%20quality%20of%20our%20suffering.&f=false
“Champagne para mis verdaderos amigos y dolor real para mis amigos fingidos.”
Original: «Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends».
Fuente: Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters. Editor Paul Maher. Editorial Chicago Review Press, 2011. ISBN 9781569769270. p. 158. https://books.google.es/books?id=w-EIUI1xU8cC&pg=PA158&dq=Champagne+for+my+real+friends+and+real+pain+for+my+sham+friends.+Tom+Waits&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjayoKQk_PgAhWMnxQKHdBeDcUQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Champagne%20for%20my%20real%20friends%20and%20real%20pain%20for%20my%20sham%20friends.%20Tom%20Waits&f=false
Fuente: Montadon, Mac. Tom Waits: Conversaciones, entrevistas y opiniones. Traductor Ignacio Juliá. Editorial Global Rhythm Press, S.L. ISBN 9788493541293. p. 28.
Fuente: Peterson, Clark. La viscosidad que llegó del frío. Entrevista publicada en Creem en marzo de 1978.
Tom Waits: Frases en inglés
“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.
Contexto: 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.
