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Tom Waits
Tom Waits
American Musician
Born: Dec 7, 1949
Listening Me Music People Think You
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Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream. Tom Waits
History You Memory Remember Every Tell Dream See Puts Smaller Like Saint Train Forget Getting Away Things
The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini. Tom Waits
Woman First Sight Minimal Marshall Atomic Atomic Bomb Naming Island Bikini Explosive Hence Bomb
You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together. Tom Waits
Music You Together People Will Party Met Think Other Musical Throw Never No-One Like Know Parts Up Wonder Get Psyche Them Should Your Show Each
I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla. Tom Waits
Change Song Result Kind Could Throwing Like Know Gorilla Genuine Any Meaningful Ever Peanuts
I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own. Tom Waits
World Looking Own My Own Voice Could Writer Part Also Call Clique Want Really Niche
I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else. Tom Waits
Else Everyone Everyone Else Buck Like Make Trying Just
George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved. Tom Waits
Vaudeville Performer Particularly George George Burns Loved Burns
Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way. Tom Waits
Song Sometimes Impossible Way Sung Magnetism Demands Certain Ignore Certain Way
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs. Tom Waits
Songs Road Goodbye Tales Most Cautionary
But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music. Tom Waits
Death Music Conversation Live Telephone Bit Those Guys Implications Still Wonder Afraid Might Then Live Music
All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning. Tom Waits
Time You People Will Understanding Whatever Just Be Think Else Way Find Some About Someone Records Throwing Off Get Same May Just Same Time Want Anything Them Meaning Really Riddles
I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox. Tom Waits
Restaurant Charles Ray Ray Charles Altar Years Worked
I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive. Tom Waits
Learning Dog Closed Ways Alive Out Some Pretty More Voice Throat Through Like Perhaps Limitations Does Different Much Bark Keep Different Ways
I don't like listening to records a lot after they're done. There's just no real nourishment there for me. Tom Waits
Me Listening Records Like Real Lot Done Just After Nourishment
If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame. Tom Waits
Saying You Action Frame Record Outside Most Sure Making Going Interesting Cut Interesting Thing Thing
People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up. Tom Waits
You People Made Girl Sense Say Easily Kind Kinds People Say Magic About Variety Songs Name Know Bedroom Up Wall May Just After Stain Then Ingredients Your Include Things
I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture. Tom Waits
Music You Man Culture Old Singing Songs Schoolyard Making Hear Ultimate Going Children Old Man Really Your Used Swings Playing Imagine
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