Tom Waits



Q: How hard is it to get the sound you hear in your head translated accurately to a recording?

A: "As soon as the songs hear the crack of that rifle, they go running for cover. But I've usually got three days worth of food and a scope. You want to avoid recording the feathers and throwing away the bird, I guess. You do want something to be living in them. So you sneak up on them. Because the recording process involves putting something through a machine, you have to wonder what falls down into the filter. Sometimes we pull out that lint and make other songs."


Interview excerpt taken from:
"I Hope More People Misunderstand Me"
USA Today (USA), by Edna Gundersen
Published: June 17, 2002