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Tom Waits Quotes

American - Musician | December 7, 1949 -

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

Hope People Listening Better You

I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.

Restaurant Years Altar Ray Worked

I don't like listening to records a lot after they're done. There's just no real nourishment there for me.

Me Listening Done Real Just Records

I don't really like listening to the radio so much.

Listening Radio Like Much Really

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.

Music Culture Think Marketing More

There's not much difference between what I appear to be on stage and what I am. I think people like that, that I'm not trying to pull a caper.

I Am People Think Trying Stage Pull

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

Action Saying Interesting You Frame

I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops. It has 60 voices - everything from galloping horses to owls to rain to every instrument in the orchestra.

Rain Early Orchestra Everything Some

If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.

You Back Play Sound Old Bacon

I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page. Some people write for the page, and that's a whole other thing. I'm going for what it sounds like right away, so it may not even look good on the page.

Good People Look Page Some People

I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.

Music Curious Generation My Own Own

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

Think Difficult First Opening Big

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