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  • If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.
    - Tom Waits
  • I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.
    - Tom Waits
  • You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.
    - Tom Waits
  • What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.
    - Tom Waits
  • But then 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.
    - Tom Waits
  • I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.
    - Tom Waits
  • 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