Tom Waits Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Tom Waits quotes and sayings page 5 (74 year old musician). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 77 we have for him.
“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.”
“Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.”
“If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.”
“When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.”
“George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.”
“I don't really like listening to the radio so much.”
“I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.”
“If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.”
“I don't like listening to records a lot after they're done. There's just no real nourishment there for me.”
“Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me.”
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