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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... tell ya but two days after they're printed they're lining the trash can. They're not binding, they're not locked away in a vault somewhere tying you to your word.” This book does not try to tie Waits to his word but instead serves as a ...
... tell if a tune was hard to write or if you were having trouble deciding whether to use “love” or “dove” or “above,” you know? [Starts playing “Big Joe and Phantom 309”] I don't know who wrote this, I don't know anybody who'd know who ...
... as entertaining as what was going on inside. There was like two shows. There was the people that would come down at night, wouldn't even go inside sometimes. LC: The joke-telling session. Did you ever think of maybe CLOSING TIME (1973) 13.
Interviews and Encounters Paul Maher. LC: The joke-telling session. Did you ever think of maybe becoming a comedian, a humorist? A humorist is better than a comedian. TW: It's a better word. It's hard sometimes to get up and just ...
... tell a musician exactly what you want rather than just say: “Let's see how it sounds,” and give him full rein. Because any fine competent musician in L.A., a studio musician, can play any number of different styles, so you have to know ...
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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 |