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Tom Waits Quotes - Page 12

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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.

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
People, Listening, Gone

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.

Tom Waits
Men, Stories, Old Man
"Tom Waits gives the devil his due". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.

Tom Waits
Believe, Demos, Vocal
Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades

Tom Waits
Wrecks, Shade, Stills
Song: Burma-Shave, Album: Foreign Affairs

Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail. Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.

Tom Waits
Men, Holy Grail, Riding
"Song: 'Cold Water' ('Mule Variations')". 1999.

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

Tom Waits
School, Listening, Tunes

There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do anything during the time when I wrote no songs. I was creative, but in another way. I had ideas for songs and collected the ideas.

Tom Waits
Song, Writing, Ideas

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