Paul Maher Jr.
Tom Waits, even with his barnyard growl and urban hipster yawp, may just be what the ,Daily Telegraph, calls him: â€œthe greatest entertainer on Planet Earth.â€ Over a span of almost four decades, he has transformed his music and persona not to suit the times but his whims. But along with Bob Dylan, he stands as one of the last elder statesmen still capable of putting out music that matters.,Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Journalists intent upon cracking the code are more likely to come out of a Waits interview with anecdotes about the weather, insects, or medieval medicine. He is, in essence, the teacher we wished we had, dispensing insights such as: â€œVocabulary is my main instrument;â€ â€œWe all like music, but what we really want is for music to like us;â€ â€œAnything you absorb you will ultimately secrete;â€ â€œGrowth is scary, because youâ€™re a seed and youâ€™re in the dark and you donâ€™t know which way is up, and down might take you down further into a darker place . . .;â€ andÂ â€œThere is no such thing as nonfiction. . . . People who really know what happened arenâ€™t talking. And the people who donâ€™t have a clue, you canâ€™t shut them up.â€,Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  ,Tom Waits on Tom Waits, is a selection of over fifty interviews from the more than five hundred available. Here Waits delivers prose as crafted, poetic, potent, and haunting as the lyrics of his best songs.
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Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters