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George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

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Tom Waits
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
Actor
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I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'
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Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.
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but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.
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Popular music is like a big party, and it’s a thrill sneaking in rather than being invited. Every once in a while, a guy with his shirt on inside out, wearing lipstick and a pillbox hat gets a chance to speak.
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Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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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.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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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.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it they'll just make another one.
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The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!
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I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet.
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Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.
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