Tom Waits quotes - page 6

I don't really like listening to the radio so much. (Tom Waits)
I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. View quote
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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. View quote
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