Some songs come out of the ground like a potato. You build them out of things you see and remember and find and felt before. They kinda come from all kinds of places. I don’t really know where songs come from. Sometimes they get sick first and then die. Then you have to bring them back from where you found them, and sometimes they escape. Other times you chase one song for a couple of days and then you wind up with nothing. TOM WAITS: Sometimes a song just comes out of nowhere. In interviews, his answers are always vividly colorful, unexpected and very funny, as beautifully evidenced in the book Tom Waits on Tom Waits, Interviews and Encounters (Chicago Review Press), a treasure-trove of talks with Tom edited by Paul Maher, Jr.įor example, in describing the way his father’s dysfunctions affected the family dynamic, Waits says, “He was like the bad tooth in the smile.” The man is a master of metaphor, both in his songs, of course, but also in conversation. Not only is he one of our greatest and most singular songwriters, Tom Waits is one of the greatest at talking about this elusive junction of art and craft known as songwriting. You know, you’ve got to know something about birds or you won’t see anything, just you and your binoculars and a stupid look on your face. I can make one right now and finish it but because they’re so simple. “Songs are really simple,” said Tom Waits. His hilariously brilliant thoughts on songwriting, record-making, and “this business we call show”
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