Tom Waits Quotes About Songwriting

Quotes about: Songwriting

• Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Writing, Bird

  FaceBook post by Tom Waits from Nov 11, 2009

• I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

  Tom Waits

  Music, Beautiful, Terrible

  "Tom Waits: A Raspy Voice Heads To The Hall Of Fame". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 21, 2002.

• 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 residue of all that material you absorbed over time.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Thinking, Smoking

• For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

  Tom Waits

  School, Listening, Trying

  Interview with Terry Gross, wyso.org. November 3, 2011.

• When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street in a dress and a funny hat and nothing's gonna make it rain. I go through periods - or spells - when I'm more receptive.

  Tom Waits

  Rain, Dresses, Hats

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

  Tom Waits

  School, Listening, Tunes

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