In a 1993 interview, Tom Waits claimed: "It seems that the only thing that will not say intact during the memory transplants are people's songs. This is the subject of a new film collaboration between myself and Jim Jarmusch entitled They All Died Singing."
Asked by an audience member after a screening of "Year of the Horse" in 1999 what musical inspirations he would be interested in making a film about, Jim Jarmusch answered:
"Link Ray, Iggy Pop. Old Dirty Bastard maybe… [Tom] Waits. I actually have a film I made that I haven’t finished that I shot years ago. English TV asked me to make a half-hour show on Waits and then, before I started editing it, they told me they weren’t going to give me any money to finish it
But I have some great stuff of Waits. Incredible stuff I should cut together. But, it wouldn’t be a feature, it’d be, like, a half an hour. Wow, there’s a lot of great musicians, I’m not sure. I did want to make a film about Pygmy musicians in central Africa. I think their music’s incredible. But, I don’t know."
It's probable that some of this material surfaced as "The Garage Tapes" (shot in 1992) in 2006.