Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and EncountersChicago Review Press, 1 серп. 2011 р. - 480 стор. Tom Waits, even with his barnyard growl and urban hipster yawp, may just be what the Daily Telegraph calls him: &“the greatest entertainer on Planet Earth.&” Over a span of almost four decades, he has transformed his music and persona not to suit the times but his whims. But along with Bob Dylan, he stands as one of the last elder statesmen still capable of putting out music that matters. Journalists intent upon cracking the code are more likely to come out of a Waits interview with anecdotes about the weather, insects, or medieval medicine. He is, in essence, the teacher we wished we had, dispensing insights such as: &“Vocabulary is my main instrument;&” &“We all like music, but what we really want is for music to like us;&” &“Anything you absorb you will ultimately secrete;&” &“Growth is scary, because you're a seed and you're in the dark and you don't know which way is up, and down might take you down further into a darker place . . .;&” and &“There is no such thing as nonfiction. . . . People who really know what happened aren't talking. And the people who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up.&” Tom Waits on Tom Waits is a selection of over fifty interviews from the more than five hundred available. Here Waits delivers prose as crafted, poetic, potent, and haunting as the lyrics of his best songs. |
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... What are your plans now? TW: Right now I guess I'm gonna stay in one place for a while. I think I've got a gig at ... what everybody does. You talk to magazines and stuff and see if it does any good, so I'll do that in September. Up ...
... what your own taste is, but I do think there's a strong difference between someone like Randy Newman, who is certainly a craftsman when it comes to putting a song together, someone who can evoke such a feeling from his listeners, and it ...
... what's called Larimer Square now, which is kind of like a contemporary, little boutique-sort-of shopping center. It looks awful ridiculous 'cause right across the street is some real bona fide serious winos, right out in front of a ...
... what remains of his Budweiser, “and suddenly, everybody's your pal, everybody's asking you questions and people are shooting you full of self-confidence. “But songwriting is a very ... What's My Line?,” Tom began 40 TOM WAITS ON TOM WAITS.
Interviews and Encounters Paul Maher. While playing his version of “What's My Line?,” Tom began to write songs on an old Gibson acoustic and to toy with the idea of pursuing a musical career. He performed at small nightspots in the San ...
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January 23 1979Tom Waits for No One | 107 |
Heartattack and Vine 1980 | 113 |
Swordfishtrombones 1983 | 129 |
Rain Dogs 1985 | 151 |
Late 1985Rain Dogs Tourbook | 164 |
Franks Wild Years 1987 | 181 |