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Tom Waits

- (...) You say you write songs, sometimes they do not want to sing.
"Cut a song is like catching a sparrow, you have to do it without risking to kill him. Sometimes the rush to transfer a song disk's left hand with a handful of feathers, and the sparrow, that is the song, flew away. "
- When he realizes that it's time to sing this or that song?
"The songs have their pregnancy, some have a compelling need to spread, others want to stay in the shadows and continue to change over time. The song has a old tradition, the music industry, by contrast, has just a century old. For centuries, the songs were passed down orally. No one can be sure that popular songs have come to us in the way they were originally written. "

"(...) when you listened to the radio all that has been my school. It was not me who discovered the music, were those songs that I wanted. (...)».
- What was the industry when she debuted in the 70's?
"There were dragons and sharks, as today, but also naive people like myself were given a chance."
(from an interview with Tom Waits Videtta Joseph, La Repubblica, November 10, 2006)

Actually, Tom Waits has not been a central figure in my life more than he had counted Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Robert Wyatt, the early Pink Floyd, but also Jim Morrison, Leonard Cohen, many others. Tom Waits I do not like everything, but he wrote and sang "Downtown Train", "Blue Valentine" ... And it's a great character, is a friend of Jim Jarmusch and Roberto Benigni, although increasingly resembles Ezekiel Wolf, how can you not love him?

PS: The interview available in full on the archive of http://www.repubblica.it/ , was published in 2006 and is dated from Petaluma (California). Petaluma, for the uninitiated, is the place where the living relatives of Snoopy: and now that I've said and I've filled this other can close the gap in your post and put me to listen to Blue Valentine (always looks forward to Charlie Brown walking here, perhaps under the guise of Mr. Chain).