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The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
Actor
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Pomona
California
Thomas Alan Waits
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But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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I’ve never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I’ve got all three, and it’s never helped me.
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I don't think that you should be per­fectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates consider­able personal problems.
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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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using parking meters as walking sticks.
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George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.
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It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.
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Jesus Christ, this godamn rain, will someone put me on a train.
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I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Unfortunately, I made the mistake at one point of putting my address on the back of one of my albums, just to find out what would happen. I received a lot of disturbing mail and calls. Actually, I was living in a hotel, so it was easy enough to find the number. I got a kick out of it for a while. Then I realized what I'd done.
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All that you've loved is all you own
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I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch
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Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own.
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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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Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair
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Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.
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You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.
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I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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