Tom Waits Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.

  Tom Waits

  Impact, Tree, Musical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Thinking, Marketing, Culture

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

• 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

  Song, Children, Men

  "Tom Waits gives the devil his due". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

• It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.

  Tom Waits

  Important, Culture, Economic

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

• The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures.

  Tom Waits

  Strong, Independent, Style

  Source: tomwaitsfan.com

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin