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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.

~Tom Waits

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Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

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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.

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I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M.

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I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

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I look for things that are left of center, something you've only seen your whole life, but never heard. Hit it! With a stick! I have a guitar made out of a 2x4 that I bought in Cleveland.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: December 7th, 1949

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