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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... everything but conventional, and that is just the way his fans like him. Tom Waits's carnival house-of-mirrors persona exudes humility more than celebrity entitlement. He seems to be “one of the guys,” the bullshitter we all know, who ...
... everything. I try to integrate different styles in my writing, it's important to do that. With a piano it's easier for me to write, I can find a lot more things that I could never find on guitar, so it helps with writing on the piano. I ...
... everything. It was just something I wanted to try my hand at, so I tried my hand at it. I don't know. I guess you get better as you go along. The more music you listen to, the more perceptive you become toward melody and lyric and all ...
... everything. HL: It seems like such a massive challenge. TW: It is, but it's good, because I guess you can really get tired of performing for people who just think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread before you open your mouth ...
... everything I can get my hands on by him. HL: Any other writers? TW: Oh, yeah, Charles Bukowski is probably one of the most colorful and most important writers of modern fiction, poetry, and prose in contemporary literature right now. I ...
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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 |