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Song Quotes by Tom Waits
- Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
- I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
- Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the…
- I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.
- I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a…
- Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.
- People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't so…
- I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those…
- Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.
- Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's…
- Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
- Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to…
- Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On
- Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or…
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- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. — Sai Baba
- Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with. — Sebastian Bach
- I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not… — Sebastian Bach
- A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than… — Sebastian Bach
- To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know. — Sebastian Bach
- My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies. — Randy Bachman
- I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog. — Erykah Badu
- A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime. — Bryan Adams