Tom Waits

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You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

Tom Waits
car
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You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

Tom Waits
hope
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

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writing , songs , like
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Tom Waits
wanted , now , quite
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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.

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history
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The piano has been drinking, not me.

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piano , been
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The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.

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only , thing , worse
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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
travel
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Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

Tom Waits
sometimes , words , just
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Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

Tom Waits
sometimes , magnetism , song
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Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me.

Tom Waits
got , beautiful , cadillac
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My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Tom Waits
imagination
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My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

Tom Waits
first , big , gig
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Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Tom Waits
music , generally , involved
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Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

Tom Waits
most , songs , cautionary