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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Pomona
California
Thomas Alan Waits
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You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.
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I was a fireman. I lived in the fire sta­tion for about a year. The pay wasn't so good. It was kind of like being in the army, or what I imagine that would be like.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?
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I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand.
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when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans
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I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.
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I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong… I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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I know a girl, she been married so many times, she got rice marks all over her face
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I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.
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and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades
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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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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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Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.
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People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't so ultra-personal that they can't possibly be interpreted by anyone else.
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