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Tom Waits Quotes

Tom Waits quotes about song

American Musician December 7, 1949

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Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. Tom Waits
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one. Tom Waits
Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. Tom Waits
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites. Tom Waits
Tom Waits quote: "Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's..."
Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On Tom Waits
Tom Waits quote: "Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are..."
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs. Tom Waits
Tom Waits quote: "Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and..."
Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way. Tom Waits

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